Word: dampness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians, having helped egg Nasser on by publicly condemning the Israelis, may now be having second thoughts. In a note to Lyndon Johnson, Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin is reported to have urged backstage action by the superpowers to damp down the situation...
...Trusted. For Johnson, Viet Nam is a two-front war-the military conflict across the Pacific, and the political battle in the U.S. At home, the hostilities seemed to be escalating, despite his efforts to damp down his long-running vendetta with Bobby Kennedy. The feud, which had its beginnings in the 1960 Democratic Convention, flamed into open warfare last month when Bobby returned from Europe amidst rumors that he had received a significant peace feeler in Paris (which...
...feel like a woman, like a basement tobacco shop, a busted fountain, a sloppy staircase. Dark, damp lists of words, you say them. One will say it all soon. Then you will not have to sweep up in the morning...
...Rootes, which produces Humber, Hillman, Sunbeam and Singer automobiles and three lines of trucks. Half will be in the form of an outright loan; the rest will come from the purchase of additional shares, which will push Chrysler's total stock investment in Rootes to $93 million. To damp the fiery protests in Parliament, most of which came from the Labor backbenchers, the complex refinancing arrangements will also call for Britain, through the state-run Industrial Reorganization Corp., to hold about 13% of Rootes voting stock...
...typewriters, ITT telex machines and IBM computers. While his wife runs a Hoover vacuum cleaner, a Singer sewing machine and a Sunbeam iron, he confers with his American advertising agency and stops at a branch of First National City Bank of New York. If he sneezes in the wintry damp, he pulls out a Kleenex. If his boss needles him, he calms down with a Miltown. Relaxing in the evening, he puffs an R. J. Reynolds Reyno menthol cigarette, listens to RCA, Columbia or Capitol records. At bedtime, he fastens his door with a lock made by BKS, a Yale...