Word: dank
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GOOD YEAR tire plant shines in the afternoon sun as the train slows down for Wilmington, Del. Children play in a puddle of murky water to the side of a windowless concrete warehouse. The decayed corrugated metal walls of the Phoenix Steel Corp sit icily in dank shadows. On through fields of belching smokestacks and huge storage containers...
...Skip Gates found emotions running high. "I'll tell you why they'll vote to strike," declared Mrs. Maggie Johnson, a miner's wife for 43 years. "They talk about mechanization-well, the foul air's still there, the dust's still there, the dank's still there. It used to be the miners put their pride in their pockets -they had to, didn't they? But there was a hole in that pocket big as your fist. They've taken their pride out of their pockets now. That...
Among Coyle's "friends," Steven Keats is a bundle of raw nerves as the kid crook trying to tough it out in a line of work he is not really mature enough to handle. Richard Jordan exudes the dank and oily atmosphere of a basement where one cannot tell the cops from the crooks they suborn; and Peter Boyle menacingly underplays the man who finally betrays Mitchum...
Meanwhile, the Elis and Dartmouth, whom Harvard outlasted, 7-5, on Wednesday, are both scrambling to avoid the dank Ivy cellar. If the Bulldogs lose tomorrow, they're on the bottom for the first time since the Ivy League lacrosse inception...
...target for the tentacles of the Children of God. I know. I spent three months in England trying to persuade my 19-year-old sister to leave the cult. It is pathetic to look at a member of your family and realize that she spends her life in a dank, condemned warehouse with no gainful employment, begging for food and clothing, studying the Bible by day and witnessing for Christ by night. She is no longer my sister but unwittingly the robot of a group of glory-seeking, money-oriented religious fanatics...