Word: dank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time the hot, soggy breath of Christmas Day began to blow across the dank jungles of Guadalcanal, the Marines were writing the last lines to the brightest page in their Corps' history. This time the "scuttlebutt" was true: they were going to be relieved. Last week the War Department finally announced that the job had been completed. Guadalcanal's fighting force (except for airmen still provided by the Navy) was now made up of Army troops...
...mostly owned by U.S. companies) return to Chile only wages and taxes. Chile's agricultural land is sparse and dominated by the landed gentry on their great fundos. The nation's industrial workers average less than $200 yearly, her agricultural workers less than $100. Santiago's dank slums and pasty-faced poor are as prominent a feature as Chile's snow-crusted Andes...
...place is dank, dismal, depressing. Stacks of grey, fungus-covered piling loom like ghostly sentries, a huge, muddy filled-in ditch resembles the caved-in moat of a deserted castle. A few workmen slowly dismantle a partly built railroad; now & then a grey-clad Louisiana State patrolman plods his lonely beat...
Thanks to the wowsers, Sunday in an Australian town, for soldiers who need recreation, is an exercise in breathing the dank air of a tomb. There are no movie shows, because places where people pay an admission fee are classed as "disorderly houses." There are no dances, few open restaurants where a man can buy himself and girl a cup of coffee, nothing but churches and sedate fun at home. Even window shopping is out. The windows are all sandbagged...
Styles ranged from the rugged realism of painters like Kansas City's Fletcher Martin (TIME, Nov. 25, 1940) and Chicago's Francis Chapin to flat, geometric abstractions and surrealist fantasies. Top-notchers whose work had already drawn plaudits included Portland, Ore.'s Darrel Austin (who paints dank, dripping green landscapes swarming with wide-eyed animals and ghostlike humans), Boston's Jack Levine (whose red-faced politicians and gangsters appear to be seen through a glass of water...