Word: dank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their quarters were purposely kept dank and moist. They ate miserable special diets of concentrated food. For weeks on end they disciplined themselves to work and live and spend drab hours in closetlike confinement...
...gala evenings in town with the inevitable mad rush to beat the 7.45 bell back to Briggs, the frantic borrowing, lending, and devouring of the hall's incredible stock of Pocket Book murder mysteries ("Death in the Dawn" challenges in popularity the latest Memo change) . . . out of all this, dank, drab and insidious, emanates a contagious disease . . . known only to Naval personnel in training . . . billet fever! One may detect the more obvious symptoms at first glance...
...Like a dank whiff from a tomb, the news from Italy flowed over the Alps and oozed across the Reich. People high and low glanced at one another, calculating...
Boston music doesn't seem to have been particularly affected by the current heat wave. The Ken was left dank and dismal last Sunday afternoon, with not even Pete Brown showing up to relieve the monotony. Cab Calloway and the RKO stage shows. Louis Jordan at the Tis Tec, had a pretty good little hand back in the days of the Decco into six album, and even later than that is the days of "Knock Me A Kiss, and Mama, Mama Blues"; but now he's building up a reputation for having the biggest little comedy band in the country...
...verb "to mugg" apparently stems from the dank soil of 19th Century prisons, where "mugger" was synonymous with footpad-"one of the wretched horde who haunt the street at midnight to rob drunken men." Its meaning, as given by the American Thesaurus of Slang: robbery with violence. In New York City muggers usually attack from behind if possible, throwing one arm around the victim's neck, while the assistant muggers frisk the victim...