Word: dampness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Carlo Barbieri, art critic for Naples' // Mattino: "Italy's artistic patrimony has been saved by the work of restorers, especially in the removal of frescoes from damp and crumbling walls and the transferring of paintings to new canvases...
...flannel was at a premium. Every girl was sewing a red flannel bellyband for her favorite soldier, the theory being that it would keep out tropical fevers by day and the jungle damp by night. Private Charles Johnson Post was especially lucky. True, he had no ammunition when he left for the Spanish-American War, but he did have two gorgeous red bellybands...
...Florida breeze soughing in the pines by the stable at 7:30 a.m. was damp, and the bent old man in the high-top black shoes wore a sweater under his coat. He sat on a folding chair in the center of a walking ring at Hialeah and watched with faded blue eyes as the boys cooled his horses after their workouts. At 85, hunched by spinal arthritis and wracked by asthma. Sunny Jim ("Mr. Fitz") Fitzsimmons last week was starting the 76th year of one of racing's most remarkable careers. "The day I got my first...