Word: moistly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moist Gaze. Meantime we have Days. It is a characteristically hefty tome chronicling virtually every day in the life of an admirable West Country schoolmaster-a sort of block off the old Chips. Never mind the subversive rot that Waugh, Orwell and Cyril Connolly wrote about the English public school. Delderfield's Bamfylde is a cozy, character-building place. Pranks are played, faculty rivalries worked out, young minds awakened, while over it all Delderfield nods with the benign and sometimes moist gaze of an Old Boy. There seems to be a streak of self-identification in the author...
...Heat Engine. By thus "seeding" Ginger, scientists of Stormfury-a joint Commerce and Defense departments project-hoped to diminish the hurricane's awesome power, equivalent to the wallop of 400 20-megaton hydrogen bombs. Literally a huge heat engine, a hurricane is formed by spirals of warm, moist air rising from tropical seas. As the heat-packed vapor spins increasingly faster, it converges toward the eye of the storm and is forced upward; meanwhile within the eye, the temperature rises and pressure drops. Acting like a chimney, the walls of the warm vortex continue to refuel themselves...
...exemption for the Griffin lens was issued by the FDA. Since that date, the Griffin lens has been exhaustively researched and clinically tested by a number of ophthalmologists and optometrists, including some of the country's foremost authorities on corneal pathology. The lens has been used as a moist corneal soft-protective bandage and splint for various types of corneal disease. It has also been extensively used as a normal contact lens...
Hanging Skin. Circulation cut by a quarter, the client totters to a plastic-covered lounge and gets soaked with the mysterious liquid, then is zipped into a plastic suit. There the customers lie in moist and mummy-like discomfort for 90 minutes. Then they are unzipped and measured to discover how many inches they have lost...
...birds in the flock," Art Critic Thomas B. Hess recently observed, "Liberman is the rarest." It is a rare bird indeed that he resembles: the eye's moist, inquisitive glitter; the sharp ruffle of conversational feathers; the exact poise...