Word: moisten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women's home companions is 27-year-old Florence Pritchett, a bejeweled, baritone-voiced ex-model who takes the air as "Barbara Welles." Flossy's voice is husky, refined and thrillingly intimate as she says: ". . . Tear crisp green leaves of four-times-washed spinach into appetizing pieces. Moisten with French dressing and toss together in salad...
...worst weaknesses. He has loosened his loose, gabby prose until it is as flabby as Nesselrode custard. His hero, Private Wesley Jackson, is a writer-of the Saroyan persuasion. He even has the Army job Saroyan had: writing scenarios for training and documentary films. And just to moisten the damp resemblance, Saroyan makes him a precocious Californian: Wesley is published in the New Republic when he is only 18-but it never goes to his head. Nothing does...
...eyes moisten visibly when the men cheer his public appearances; he cannot make a smooth, cliche-packed speech of thanks, but is more likely to blurt (as he did after the first hit-run raids): "I've never been so damn proud of anybody...