Word: moistly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spirit of the place is insistent with the presence of money. Set in feudal splendour cool and moist as the Snow Queen's summer palace in its perch upon the sea, it is redolent with sensual pleasure. It is also a monumental mistake built as if toward some transcendental point, and peaking in denial of possibilities even as it marks the exhaustion of America as a land still to be settled...
...storm built slowly, ominously. From the Gulf of Mexico, huge masses of warm, moist air moved northward to ward the center of the continent. From the West, a threatening layer of cooler, drier air seeped eastward toward the Appalachians, sliding under the moist air. As the two layers converged in an uneasy mixture, tremendous turbulence developed. In the roiling atmosphere, embryo funnels of spinning air formed, dissolved and reformed-a telltale sign that the tornado season had arrived...
...been trendy. But in his latest package he has modestly chosen to limit himself to kidnaping and rape, perhaps because the good liberal in him balks at going further. The object of Wallace's kidnaping is a Hollywood sex symbol named Sharon Fields, she of the "half-parted moist lips" and "famous bosom." Her captors are Adam, a lust-crazed young writer (wearing, as writers will, "a worn gray cord jacket" and "tight blue knit slacks") and three accomplices, just "ordinary, average men" says Wallace, who naturally turn into "savages bent on satisfying their immediate appetites." Howard Yost...
...about ten miles out on the road that leads to La Paz. The girl, barely able to speak between her clenched teeth, told him that she had waited two weeks after the fracture before coming to seek medical care in Cochabamba. The doctor, his hands working rapidly, removed the moist bandage and, with a professional sweep of the arm, dropped it into a basket...
...Roaches like to live in cracks and crevices where it is warm and moist, and they like to live near a good supply of human food," he said. An old dorm building, then, is a logical place to find roaches...