Word: moistness
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...uniformly so; fighter opposition on most recent assaults has been light. But in the drive to knock out Japan's industry, the B-29s will now face a new enemy: weather. Between June and September, eastern Japan's rainiest season, the air will be warm, moist and thick with clouds. Inevitably, more bombing will have to be done by instruments and will be correspondingly less accurate, but there will be no lightening of the bomb loads...
...drive into this country in a dust storm from Balranald to Wentworth is like driving in a lost world. The dust-laden air plays eerie tricks with light. The sky appears leaden, like a snowy sky in Europe, or is crossed by great bands of black, red, and grey. Moist surfaces-such as sweat patches on a horse or the wet concrete of a swimming pool at an irrigation settlement-are a weird glowing purplish color. The sun is entirely obscured, or shows like a wan full moon. Dead trees, a tragic number, loom through the hot murk...
Thin, icy air American flyers encounter as they wing their way through the stratosphere, the moist tropical heat of South Pacific jungles, the dry, numbing cold of our Aleutian outposts are all being reproduced in the University's unique Fatigue Laboratory. Here a group of doctors and scientists study the effects such diverse weather conditions will have upon the energies of fighting men. Special diets are prepared and new insulated or even electrically heated clothing developed to protect our armies, equipping them in advance against the rigors of hitherto unknown climates...
...thin, elastic film which can be used as a surface dressing for burns. It can be impregnated with sulfa drugs or penicillin, will stay pliant and moist while the wound is still raw, so that removing it is not painful. When the wound has healed, the plastic dries and drops off like a scab...
...that the world in which the mental patient moves is another world. I have thought that it is most like Through the Looking Glass, where all values are present and effective, but reversed; where a pack of tobacco given a fellow patient at Christmas had, he assured me, with moist eyes, but forgiving, "ruined his life"; where Fischbein is called Trelawny by his friends, Throckmorton, Goldberg, by his. In this world, you never can tell...