Word: dank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bumble, the Artful Dodger, and all the rest rush through dank London cellars and across creaking rooftops. It is the half-world of thieves and prostitutes, not very clean, but certainly very fascinating. And yet we always know that wrong will be righted and virtue rewarded. It isn't life, or the world as we know it, but produces the same comfortable felling as reading Dickens' novel...
...majors, for all their fame as fresh-air lovers, spend an appalling amount of time in dank laboratories. Here they rub pebbles on porcelain streak plates, peer at crystals through dime-sized hand lenses, and drip hydrochloric acid on helpless limestones...
...Croaker first came to work as "chief surgeon" at San Quentin for $75 a month in 1913. The first operation he witnessed on his rounds of the dank, dirty, two-story prison hospital was performed under protest. Four convicts held a screaming patient while a fifth lunged at his infected tooth with a pair of pliers. Tuberculous patients wandered freely among healthy prisoners, "spitting blood until they were almost too weak to stand." There were no separate wards for women in the hospital, and the only semblance of a surgery was a table tucked in a corner of the doctor...
...majors, for all their fame as fresh-air lovers, spend a terrifying amount of time in dank laboratories. Here they rub pebbles on porcelain streak plates, poor at crystals through dime-sized hand lenses, and drip hydrochloric acid on unsuspecting limestones...
Habaneros felt that their dark, dank, dungeonlike women's jail was no place to send a good-looking girl. There were no individual cells; inmates were mainly crowded into six foul, ground-level wards, as many as 25 to the ward. Each ward had one unshielded toilet in the corner. No one was more dissatisfied with Guanabacoa, or worked harder to get a modern jail, than Director Dr. Carmelina Guanche. In 1945, the government began to build such a prison...