Word: moistness
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...other on the bottom, which are covered with collodion film less than four-millionths of an inch thick. The windows are so small (four-thousandths of an inch in diameter) that this gossamer stuff has enough strength to resist the suck of the vacuum. So the cell keeps its moist air and the bacteria...
...terrace of the Hotel Regina sipped their beer in relative comfort, grateful for a temperature dip that had taken the thermometer down to the 80s. Upriver at Coquilhatville, astraddle the equator, it was sweltering as usual, and the natives crept out of their huts to sleep in the tall moist grass. To the east, where the rain forest changes to flat plains, then rolling hills, then towering mountains, blacks and whites alike lit fires as the sun disappeared, folding themselves in blankets to keep off the bitter chill...
...Herter." The cheers and the chants-"Cuba, yes! Yankees, no!"-that followed Che's words are the mood of Cuba today. The familiar grey wood shacks with thatched roofs still stand between the moist green of mountains and banana trees and the dazzle of sparkling sea. Inside on the wall, along with stiffly formal photographs of parents and children, there usually hangs a portrait of Fidel Castro. Down the gullied road is a raw-concrete school or a new co-op store of fresh pine...
...Heat Exhaustion. One severe form results from spending several months in hot, moist climates. Marked by fatigue, headaches, dizziness, blurred vision, palpitations and-paradoxically-inability to sweat, except on the face, palms and soles. Moving back to a temperate climate (or into air-conditioned quarters) is the answer, but the sweating mechanism may be knocked out for months, leaving continued danger of heat stroke...
...courses of the Southwest, where the ball rolls forever if it is hit down the middle; and Palmer was on target often enough to win the Palm Springs Classic and the Texas Open. It called for a spectacular change of pace at Pensacola, where he came from behind on moist, slow Gulf Coast greens, banked on long, bold putts to rack up a seven-under-par 65 in the second round to take the tournament by a single stroke...