Word: moistness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wonder that travelers are fast discovering this city. During the day, the temperature hovers at an eternal 88°F, and the heat rises languidly off the cobblestone streets. Like the locals, you can retreat into the cool, moist refuges of the ancient stone homes, most with walls so thick that air-conditioning becomes redundant. One of my favorite places to chill: Getsemani, the tiny European-style section of the Old Town - once the poor neighborhood just across the moat but now the cool Greenwich Village-style area of the city. Getting around the Old Town is a cinch; cabs...
...There they were, looking great, cracking wise, the winners getting moist on camera, the losers welling up in private in the bathrooms. One Brit producer said the F word (in joy, not anger), an American director gave his winning star the finger, and The Office's Ricky Gervais provoked a collective intake of breath, rather than the laugh he was hoping for, when he said, "The trouble is, with Holocaust films there's never any gag reel on the DVDs." Virtually all the town's royalty - except, unaccountably, those two prime party animals, Jack Nicholson and George Clooney- had been...
...cell phones, dress in drab burlap ensembles, and stand in long lines waiting for soup. There’s a reason we consider sincere intellectual engagement awkward. The longer we can postpone that, the more time we can spend making lists of verboten terms like “moist,“ “dank,” and “tender” and quietly hoping someone else will fix the economy...
...small town's Dionysian "Dirty Day" festival: "Those bulging sacks on the cart contain moist soil and live ants, the big, juicy, biting kind, bred and nurtured especially for tonight's extravaganza. Apparently, the ants are sprinkled with vinegar just before the main event, to get them really angry. An army of ant scatterers emerges from behind us, each one with a bag of the anty soil, which they launch into the air above our heads. Screams go up as the sky fills with soil and very annoyed ants...Everyone is maniacally scraping mud and insects from their hair...
...researchers found that tobacco companies have increased the nicotine content in some brands of moist snuff and have employed different approaches to making snuff more palatable. They also found that marketing efforts have increased, and that moist snuff usage among teens has risen...