Word: moistly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...warm, moist nights of last week, Dick Helms sipped a little Iranian vodka (straight over ice) and played a little bridge with his family (he made four spades with ease). He lunched with old agency colleagues, who gave him a long, standing ovation and, over his protests, passed around a pot for money to help him pay his fine. He seemed to be wryly accepting the next chapter of a spy's life. Instead of a medal for brilliant, selfless service, he was convicted of a misdemeanor...
...rumbled down the runway, and Laker gave us the word from the cockpit: "Ladies and gentlemen, your Skytrain is in the air." The food arrived in about an hour, served by stew- ardesses in red uniforms who maneuvered in the narrow aisles between the ten-across seats: cold but moist fried chicken, a questionable salad, a soggy roll and a decent piece of chocolate cake. I ignored the movie Swashbuckler, tried unsuccessfully to sleep (my seat back would not stay put), did not eat breakfast (the sausages looked inedible) and saw dawn break over the Atlantic. Soon Gatwick Airport...
...similar views base their judgment not on new evidence but on an analysis of the biology experiments conducted by the Viking landers. The gas exchange test, based on the fact that terrestrial organisms give off gases as waste products, involved dropping a pinch of Martian soil into a warm, moist test chamber. The aim was to determine whether the sample would give off carbon dioxide, as animals would, or oxygen, as plants do. Scientists were surprised when the sample began releasing oxygen far more rapidly than plants would be expected to do. But they noted that the reaction might have...
Southern fried chicken can be prepared in endless ways; at its best it has a fine and crispy crust and is cooked so that inside it is moist to the bone. For chicken, ham, breads, jams or jellies there is no strict rule or regulation...
...Department of Agriculture scientists concede that the Texas scientists could have a point, but insist that other factors are also at work in the new wave of cattle infestation: warm weather last winter and moist conditions this summer have increased the birth rate of the fly; there are fewer ranch hands to check and treat cattle on the ranges; and a recent proliferation of Gulf Coast ear ticks has resulted in wounds on cattle that provide ideal hatching places for screwworm larvae. In addition, some scientists speculate that because the factory males are smaller and differently colored, the wild females...