Word: moistly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heat was melting the tar on Massachusetts Avenue. Mr. Roosevelt patted his moist forehead, dictated a note to "My dear Bob" telling him he did not much care for the results of the committee's 14 weeks' work. Then he fled from the White House, fled from Washington. A week or ten days on the yacht Potomac, out on salt water, would be fine, and, so far as he could see, it was a good time to take a vacation...
...interlards these with sizzling passages like this one from The Stars Look Down: "Linked together, they moved to the foremost pew, cushioned and wide as any bed . . . her lips were moist with desire. The rain drummed upon the roof and the darkness of the church reddened and enclosed them. When it came, her cry of physical exaltation rose before the altar...
...great contribution to campaign entertainment was a political version of cinema's Bank Night. At a Johnson rally, listeners sat with lottery tickets clutched in their moist palms. The lucky numbers won defense bonds...
...some bacteria do start growing, they are easily seen, for the infected spot becomes moist and soft. It is cut away, and a new coat of dye is sprayed on. The treatment is far more painstaking than the tannic-acid method. But aniline-dyed patients seldom die of infections, even if two-thirds of their skin is burned away...
...were "completely relieved." The synthetic vitamin, reported Dr. Steinberg, is better than wheat-germ oil, for the latter is hard to stomach. Vitamin E, said the doctor, is "a great fat preserver," and perhaps helps to grease connective tissue, the way Vitamin A helps to keep smooth and moist the mucous tissues of the body...