Word: dampness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bring lots of underwear; you'll save some money. Why? Because the secret to a laundry-free year is oodles of undies. Maybe you'll never have to see a damp basement laundry room in Holworthy or Matthews. If you're clean on the inside, who cares about the outside...
...Grady was hospitalized today with "immersion foot," a condition caused by damp boots during his six days in the Bosnian forest. Doctors have ordered him to stay off his feet for 24 hours...
...that investigated the first recorded outbreak, also in Zaire, two decades ago. Now he is leading the international brigade that has come to the city of Kikwit to battle the new emergency. "The virus is still loose, and it's spreading," he says. "If the mattress is warm and damp, and people go in and sleep on it, we're going to be in trouble." The villagers are terrified, and resigned. "It's useless for us to do anything," says a neighbor, Mbangu Fioti. "What can we do against this disease...
...still before dawn when we set out. In the chill and damp, the 20-odd strangers on the truck huddled against one another in silence. I asked Mother where we were going. "West," she said. "West." Where had the truck come from? "Father sent it," she said...
April showers may bring May flowers, but they also delay sporting events. The Harvard baseball team was to have played B.U. yesterday in the Beanpot consolation game, but the damp conditions caused the matchup to be put off until today at noon...