Word: dank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...himself as inscrutable. In his last year he half-boasted: "You don't know me; you never knew my heart. No man knows my history." He left a mixed enough legacy: "divine revelations" on subjects ranging from the Church of God to the price of stocks; a dank aura of scandal; a church which, a century after his death, has a million members...
...move on, to tidy some other grisly graveyard. Danger was their business - Sullivan had picked some of his veterans out of the New York fire department. He had trained all his officers and 150 of his men to be divers, at the Pier 88 salvage school and in the dank holds of the capsized Normandie three years ago. Their graduate work had been done in the choked harbors of Casablanca and Oran, at Salerno and Naples and Cherbourg...
...occupied Berlin, death-ridden capital of a dead empire, last week. Along a road marked off by the Red Army, a column of 4,000 U.S. vehicles rolled toward the shattered city. As the Americans crossed into suburban Zehlendorf, a dismal rain fell. Cried some gaunt Berliners : "Gott sei dank - Thank God!" Others stood silent and sullen...
Three months later the 37th went ashore on Bougainville for more of the same, at the beachhead established by the 3rd Marine Division at Empress Augusta Bay. There, with the Americal Division (the only U.S. division without a number), the 37th successfully held an area of dank jungle against a desperate enemy...
...Havre, transatlantic cable messages are pouring through the Commercial Cable Co.'s operating room, deep in a dark, dank cellar. Divers had patched the broken cable link with the U.S., had removed the mines the Germans planted over the cable bed. But the company could not move its operating offices above ground until a suitable building could be found in badly battered Le Havre...