Word: decompression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East Coast snowstorm. At New York, customs officials, alerted by Washington, passed the suitcase without opening it. A private plane flew it to the capital; there it was taken to the National Gallery, unwrapped, found to be at precisely 68°, and placed in a vault to "decompress" to the gallery's normal 70° temperature and 45% humidity...
Anxious to decompress Paris with four new suburban universities, the government has bogged down with local officials, who fear an influx of students in areas that lack housing. Meanwhile, builders keep upping their prices...
...special language of the skindivers is at least less rusty than the dialogue that comes out of the average Warner Bros.' stage coach. On last week's show, snagging a smoothly globular blonde, played by Darrah Marshall, one aquanaut observed: "I knew I'd have to decompress her before I took her to the surface...