Word: dank
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every day, the mail carrier would walk by our office and look in sadly, shrugging his shoulders as he rushed past the dank stench of decay that loomed ominously across our threshold...
First, the facts. The Shops opened on Oct.. 20 with a gala reception and a lot of hoopla. Clearly, Harvard had invested a lot in transforming the dark, dank corridor that ran through Holyoke Center into a bright, warm gallery of shops, kiosks and cafes. Indeed, just the neon-accented sign out front cost the University more than...
...didn't used to be this way. Once, every prank could be traced to one pair of doors: one a dank red and the other proudly sporting purple and gold. The Crimson and Lampoon waged war on each other with fiery zeal. Thefts, kidnappings and public embarrassment were their tools in a bloody, century-old feud. The raw hate hovering in the atmosphere between Bow and Plympton streets made dogs howl and plants wither...
...separated from her husband, and does not trust her neighbors. Inside, she shows us her shabby living room, the dim bedroom she shares with her son, a rudimentary bathroom and a dank kitchen equipped with a leaky sink, hot plate and ancient refrigerator. Its contents: beans, rice and a frozen three-month-old piece of chicken that she is saving for two-year-old Rolando. "The state gives you six pounds of rice a month, but we eat that in three ; days," she says. When her rations ran out the week before, she sold her grandmother's 10-year...
...August," he wrote, "came in a dutch man of warre that sold us twenty Negars." In Virginia alone, the slave population grew from about 2,000 in 1670 to 150,000 on the eve of the American Revolution. Most of the slaves sailed from West Africa, chained together in dank, fetid holds for transatlantic journeys that often lasted three months or more. The conditions were unspeakable, the mortality rate horrifying: on some ships more than half the slaves died during the passage...