Word: moistness
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...interlards these with sizzling passages like this one from The Stars Look Down: "Linked together, they moved to the foremost pew, cushioned and wide as any bed . . . her lips were moist with desire. The rain drummed upon the roof and the darkness of the church reddened and enclosed them. When it came, her cry of physical exaltation rose before the altar...
...great contribution to campaign entertainment was a political version of cinema's Bank Night. At a Johnson rally, listeners sat with lottery tickets clutched in their moist palms. The lucky numbers won defense bonds...
...some bacteria do start growing, they are easily seen, for the infected spot becomes moist and soft. It is cut away, and a new coat of dye is sprayed on. The treatment is far more painstaking than the tannic-acid method. But aniline-dyed patients seldom die of infections, even if two-thirds of their skin is burned away...
...were "completely relieved." The synthetic vitamin, reported Dr. Steinberg, is better than wheat-germ oil, for the latter is hard to stomach. Vitamin E, said the doctor, is "a great fat preserver," and perhaps helps to grease connective tissue, the way Vitamin A helps to keep smooth and moist the mucous tissues of the body...
Last came Ethel's own moist, resonant voice: "If my years are to be lined up and counted off, I can think of no pleasanter way for it to happen. ... I have been used for so long to shuffling time back and forth in my make-up box, that actual time has lost its meaning. . . . Thank you all, for this treasure you have stored for me, in my particular heaven." She closed with the most famous line of her career, from her early play Sunday: "That's all there is-there isn't any more." Her voice...