Word: moistening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tidal waters. In the past, flooding was a rarity in Venice. But now it has become almost a regular occurrence, as winds and new tidal currents trap an overflow of water behind the lagoon's three egresses. Along the canals, water has seeped through foundations to crack and moisten plaster walls -some of them holding priceless paintings. The frescoes by Paolo Veronese in the Church of San Sebastiano, for example, have become cracked and lumped by moisture. A preview of what can happen came in the disastrous floods of November 1966. Whipped by abnormally high winds, the water level...
...middle of the diamond, and 3) announced, then called back seven successive pinch hitters before finally allowing the game to proceed. One day last month, to back up his claim that the umps were permitting flagrant use of the illegal spitball, he deliberately ordered Braves pitchers to moisten the ball, kept careful count of how many times (75) they got by with it, and released the statistic to sportswriters after the game. Bobby's latest project is to embarrass the whole city of Milwaukee−by giving it a National League pennant...
Silver-Tongued Star. The star defense witness was none other than Ev Dirksen. In his most sonorous tones, sipping water to moisten his silver tongue, Dirksen said he had known Stratton "man and boy" since the defendant was 14, went on to relate the burdensome financial life of a politician. "I have never yet found a substitute for money," said Ev. "Carrying out the work and projecting an image obviously requires funds. I've clocked the demands made upon me over a period of six months, and it comes roughly to $100 a day in political and nonpolitical requests...
...toward the Pacific-at least temporarily-permitting moist air to reach the high plains and letting a little rain fall. The Weather Bureau's 30-day forecast, issued late last week, predicts that the ridge will move farther out into the Pacific, allowing more than normal rain to moisten the droughty area...
...chance. After the 1794 yellow fever epidemic, bets were made on the number of the dead. Bettors so pressured steamboat captains to race one another that passengers bribed, pleaded and fought for berths farthest away from the boilers. "Bet-a-Million" Gates, who would bet on anything, used to moisten a lump of sugar and bet $1,000 a fly on how many flies would alight on it. In 1944, General Eisenhower bet ?5 that his troops would reach the German border by Christmas-but lost. Al Capone, a madman at gambling, drew the line only at the stock market...