Word: dank
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elevator. They float among color-slide-projected stars, perch on the solid-looking edge of a planet examining a literal representation of the sun's corona, finally end their galactic tour by strolling across what seems to be an asteroid before ending up again in their dank garden...
...huge book shop. No sign or flag indicates that it is the bastion of the Soviet secret police. In front of it stands the giant statue of the first Soviet secret policeman, Feliks E. Dzerzhinsky, who ran the police until his death in 1926. In the same building is dank Lubyanka prison, where political prisoners undergo their initial conditioning; in his novel The First Circle, Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote how its warders clicked their tongues to warn each other whenever they were escorting a prisoner: "One prisoner must never be allowed to encounter another, never be allowed to draw comfort...
Under Torture. Last March Padilla was arrested without charges and thrown into dank Campo Libertad, a prison in Havana. In a letter to Castro, a group of prominent intellectuals (among them: Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Alberto Moravia and Carlos Fuentes) protested. But what got him out, five weeks later, were his own words. Padilla abjectly confessed to "a series of insults and defamations against the revolution, which are now-and always will be-my shame." He accused European leftist Writers K.S. Karol and René Dumont, who recently published critical studies of Castro's regime (TIME...
...perfect, of course, even at Portsmouth. Incorrigibles are still likely to land in "the hole": solitary confinement below ground in dank semidarkness. The Navy is also investigating reports that Portsmouth has a major drug-trafficking problem. But such black marks pale in comparison with the grim conditions at one of the military's least reformed prisons: the Army stockade at Mannheim, Germany...
Some of Hoppe's syndicated newspapers, including the Atlanta Constitution and the Boston Herald Traveler, refused to print the column. Hoppe had obviously touched a nerve. He wrote of his love for his country in World War II and his feeling now that "I have come to the dank and lightless bottom of the well." Of the 941 letters that Hoppe had received last week about the column, 923 praised it. Wrote a housewife in Hollister, Calif.: "I asked my 12-year-old son to read it aloud and had to quickly leave the room because some kids cannot...