Word: damp
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Three weeks short of his 70th birthday, President de Gaulle went into four-day seclusion at his country retreat in the Champagne region of northeastern France. He tramped in his damp wooded fields ("I have walked them 15,000 times"), sat in the tower study he has added to the old stone farmhouse, working on his first radio-TV speech in five months...
...week's climax came on Kennedy's own home grounds of Boston. Wet confetti showered on Pat and Dick, cheers echoed through the damp, narrow streets from Bostonians lined six to eight deep, and many broke ranks to chase after his car. Police numbered the throng at an extravagant 250,000, yet it was undoubtedly the biggest street turnout anywhere in the campaign...
Kennedy ran into foul weather. The rain that had turned the fields into a sea of sticky mud started up again just as he began to speak. Said he, looking down at some 20,000 damp faces: "I regret the rain, but it rains, as the Bible tells us. on the just and the unjust alike, on Republicans as well as Democrats." He was right: when Nixon spoke from the same platform next day, it rained again, though not until near the end of the speech (South Dakota is traditionally Republican territory). A week before, at Guthrie Center, Iowa, Nixon...
Carlo Barbieri, art critic for Naples' // Mattino: "Italy's artistic patrimony has been saved by the work of restorers, especially in the removal of frescoes from damp and crumbling walls and the transferring of paintings to new canvases...
...flannel was at a premium. Every girl was sewing a red flannel bellyband for her favorite soldier, the theory being that it would keep out tropical fevers by day and the jungle damp by night. Private Charles Johnson Post was especially lucky. True, he had no ammunition when he left for the Spanish-American War, but he did have two gorgeous red bellybands...