Word: moistly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sand casting Susse employs a sand found only in the Seine basin, which becomes almost doughy when moist. It is best for highly polished surfaces. The sculpture is solidly packed with sand, which is then baked dry to make a mold. A second mold is also fashioned, roughly one-eighth inch smaller than the original mold. The molds, shaped in halves, are placed one inside the other and then joined. Finally molten bronze is poured into the thin space left empty between...
...Siberian sea transport. Dr. Maurice Ewing of Columbia University's Lament Geological Observatory believes that the Northern Hemisphere's comparative freedom from continental glaciers is due to Arctic ice. Winds blowing off the Arctic Ocean are now dry, but if the ice were removed, they would become moist, dropping snow on nearby lands. The snow would pack into ice, and glaciers would start creeping south. Once the process was started, it might be impossible to stop before icecaps covered large parts of Europe...
...Colonial Room of the Richmond Hotel in Augusta, 30 newsmen gathered with TV and newsreel photographers. The President walked in, his eyes moist. In the din he said: "What I have to say concerns Secretary Dulles." A reporter asked: "What was that, Mr. President?" The room hushed, and Ike repeated: "It concerns Secretary Dulles. I had a conversation this morning with him, and in view of the findings the doctors have made . . . he has definitely made up his mind to submit his resignation." The medical findings, the President added, "are not of the kind, so far as I am aware...
...thought, is something. Here is what we have been waiting for these long years. The Bick has ceased to be the symbol of the locusts' ravage, the turtles' quiet call. And swiftly they gathered back where the butterscotch puddings stand stacked in gleaming rows, where the untoasted English lies moist and soft in purple racks. We must do this slowly, they said, but inexorably...
Spencer Tracy plays the stranger, a man endowed with the resourcefulness of Robinson Crusoe, to say nothing of an incredible judo chop. Robert Ryan is the principal meanie, but his neanderthal sidekicks supply most of the diabolic appeal. Anne Francis contributes the moist lipstick...