Word: moistly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brooklyn's Postmaster Edward J. Quigley announced that dogs, cats, snakes and rabbits may not be sent through the mail, but that postal authorities will accept alligators (up to 20 inches), bees, turtles, frogs, horned toads, and certain types of worms (provided they are packed in moist moss...
...been proven by science that swimming consumes more energy than any other sport, and last year it was proven under competition that Hal Ulen's swimmers can win more meets than most teams in the nation. Last year, his moist horde overpowered all of their nine opponents except Yale. This year they're out to make it a clean sweep...
...closed door of his sitting room. Newsmen had just got the flash of Tom Dewey's concession. A few minutes later the President invited the newsmen into his parlor. As each came by he shook hands and said, "Thank you, thank you." Harry Truman's palm was moist, and behind the thick glasses, tears rimmed his eyes...
...Christian Democrats, confident of victory, found other portents. In Formia, near Naples, plump, moist-eyed Elvira Wangrillo told how a Communist had joined a pilgrimage to the sanctuary of Itri where, confronted with the picture of the Madonna, he fell to his knees, struck dumb. "He has been that way ever since," related Elvira, "the doctors say it's a miracle...
...country's freight traffic, hard-pressed Dutch railroads were breathing easy. In Italy, where the fragrant mimosa had flowered in December, thanks to the mildest winter of the century, cattle and sheep were grazing hoof-deep in verdant pastureland while farmers sent their plows deep into soft, moist earth. "Now that the sun is reaching again into the dark corners of the valley," sighed a pensive, copper-haired peasant woman of Anticoli last week, "we have no fear...