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Word: dampish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Ryan and Quinn are not trying to retrieve the bullion against the onslaughts of the elements, they are pursuing the lady skipper of a banana boat (Mala Powers) and a nightclub entertainer (Suzan Ball). Sample of the dampish dialogue: Diver Quinn, parrying a marriage proposal by Suzan-"Think of what our kids might be like, full of bends and nitro bubbles." City Beneath the Sea has a few eerily effective underwater scenes, filmed in Technicolor, depicting Port Royal's ghostly ruins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 23, 1953 | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...dampish, cold evening. Around supper time, a passerby noticed a green Ford truck coasting down a North End hill; at the bottom the truck swung sharply into the Brink's Incorporated garage. There was nothing unusual in this. Trucks customarily went in and out, day and night. But this one had no ordinary cargo: in the rear were six armed, masked...

Author: By Philip M. Cronoin, | Title: The Great Robbery | 12/17/1952 | See Source »

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