Soon the white carved wooden tray would hold eight squat glasses—their clarity iced to ground glass—which would leave broken links of damp on the wood.
WITH the damp of a rainstorm still hanging in the evening air, a human wave bore down on Jerusalem's old city from the west, engulfing the cool stone walls in a blue-and-white sea.
The early white-collar workers stood or perched on stools at high wooden desks in damp basements and garrets, where they were quite likely to contract tuberculosis as well as eye strain.