Word: dampness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bullets. After five days of fighting, the stubborn attackers of Tan Son Nhut airstrip were still entrenched near the field as F-100 jets, Skyraiders and helicopters blasted at their positions. Fighting flared in one part of the city and, when troops moved in with air support to damp it down, broke out in another area. Though the allies claimed 2,000 enemy dead in the city, the U.S. command was worried by the presence of a reserve unit of some 1,000 Viet Cong still lurking in Saigon and not yet committed to battle. Allied troops ringed the city...
...month, three months longer than the old record. There were inflationary signs, a big balance-of-payments deficit, pressure on the dollar after Britain's devaluation of the pound. Economists and politicians began talking about "profitless prosperity." When Johnson asked belatedly for a 10% surcharge on income taxes to damp down the supercharged economy, Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, insisted on an equivalent cut in federal spending that the President was unwilling to make...
...Psychedelic Supermarket, a damp basement garage just off Kenmore Square. No more than a dozen people sit at tables near the stage -- mostly teeny bopper couples with happy-colored beads and sad faces. Two workmen in cover-alls are folding up unused tables and chairs and dragging them past the three...
Harvard stole some of Penn's hustle in a third-quarter comeback bid, but the Crimson's short passes were often too short on the damp field and the Quakers' sthrong three-fullback defense, led by senior Steve Mazzetti, clogged the scoring area...
...life was a wailing burglar alarm. Lou's Men's Wear expired in a ball of flame. Meantime, a mob of 3,000 took up the torch on the East Side several miles away. The Weather Bureau's tornado watch offered brief hope of rain to damp the fires, but it never came...