Word: dank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...July 27 story, "A Mad Race": I am a humble citizen of this great city "which lies beneath its flies, swollen and unhealthy." Your country is supposed to be God's own country, free from flies, sacred cows and D.P.S from Pakistan, yet I love Calcutta with its dank tenements and narrow alleys. I am proud of Calcutta, as a New Yorker is proud of New York City. As yours is God's own country, you are supposed to be free from any mental disequilibrium. To keep the mind of His favorite children on an even keel...
Calcutta lies beneath its flies, swollen and unhealthy. The great city now crowds between 3,000,000 and 5,000,000 souls into its dank tenements, often six to ten to a room, scores to a back-well privy. One man in three is a D.P. from Pakistan or the poor uplands, with no money and no place to go. And although the sacred cows roam free down Chowringhee, the native Bengali feels no more free than the refugee: the Marwaris and the British have the best businesses; the quick Madrasis get the best jobs; the workers for the jute...
After the crew race, the disconsolate funnymen retired to their dank castle and refused to see reporters or Crimeds. "We'd like to invite you up, "said a spokesman for Updike, "but frankly, we're busted. It's those Halberstam twins, David and Jonathan we're afraid of," he explained...
Furry should be no here to America's liberals. His testimony was a model of poor judgment and naivete. His ambiguity has been the foundation for towering conjecture by committee members and newspapers alike, both of whom have visions of dank communist calls still functioning here. After reading all the information, one wonders whether they are correct. At no time, did Furry make a positive statement to dispell this idea. Throughout, it has been a case of saving his skin at the expense of Harvard...
...Bailey wanted more. His first attempt to get compulsory health insurance failed because students balked at Stillman's lack of facilities for contagious cases. During the 19th century the only place a man with measles could go was a dank "pest-house" on Soldiers Field. After this went out of business, people with communicable diseases had to pay the exhorbitant prices of local hospitals or endanger their dorm-mates by staying in their rooms...