Word: dank
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...seemed the right thing to do. But 2002 was also marked by the triumph of determination over adversity. In a ruined city, a small girl played with giant balloons; in a graveyard, a boy fashioned a swing from the branch of a tree. A Pennsylvania miner emerged from the dank earth, rescued in a near miracle after being trapped by an underground flood. In a personification of guts and glory, a football player thundered in the snow of January. And lost in his dreams, a boy rose above the silent confines of autism...
...sign at the start of the bridge across the lake outlines the rules: no shoes, no swearing, no whiskey, no littering, no graffiti, no stealing the sacred water, no loud noises and, oddly, no sitting. An eerie, whispering sound issued from within the dank grove. I rounded a bend in the path, half expecting to come face-to-face with the slithering monster. Instead, it was a small army of Thai matrons engaged in one of the country's most popular pastimes?trying to discern lucky lottery numbers by swirling powder over the bumps and ridges of the broad palm...
...burning incense, his dark eyes staring out at my sister and me. He had a fat nose that looked like a chicken’s foot. His wide, prominent cheekbones rendered the shape of his face triangular. The resemblance was uncanny. Standing on these scratchy mats in this dank hut, I stared at Ông Ngoai through scented smoke and I could see my mother...
...Driving west from Mazar-i-Sharif, northern Afghanistan's main city, you catch the smell almost immediately. Baking in the midday sun, marijuana bushes the size of a man give off the same dank stench that permeates hip parties from New York City to New South Wales. For the decade before the Soviet army invaded in 1979, the teahouses of Afghanistan were the toking tourist's hangout of choice. And even during 23 years of war, when the Afghans fought the Soviets and then one another, the hash trade thrived. "Afghan black" remained a staple sale for cannabis dealers across...
...union card. The money is awful, and he is often at the mercy of corrupt agents, but still Suraj says he will never go back home to Bhopal. "I can't do anything else," he says. Nevertheless, he might soon have to. He waits every day at the dank office, but producers are no longer calling. "This is a cruel industry," says filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, who tries to hire junior artists but still, like everyone else, needs the models as well. "And these guys have the worst deal...