Word: dankly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rent: two abandoned subway tunnels that stretch for nearly two miles some 50 feet beneath the streets of Manhattan. They are dark, dank and almost inaccessible. Present occupants are a few rats. If interested, contact New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority...
MSHA has not yet issued its findings on the Mink Branch tragedy, but Commissioner Stanley, a former miner, thinks that the blasting ignited coal dust suspended in the dank, clammy shaft. "We were very surprised by some of the things we saw in there," Stanley says. "The whole situation was very improper...
...north side of Stoughton Hall, there's a door to the basement, distinguished only by a doorbell and a small red sign. Most students pass by Room 13 without even noticing it, and few have more than a vague idea of what goes on inside. But in the dank recesses of Stoughton basement a group of 30 undergraduates operates a telephone and drop-in counseling service for Harvard students...
...past few days have revealed a man capable of far more petty vituperation than most Americans thought possible even in a dank political season. Maybe, as Truman says, Carter can win an election or two by being mean. But maybe...
...prospective, not retrospective. Being a creation of the Enlightenment, it is even inclined to be contemptuous of history. As Descartes said, historians are people who spend a lifetime attempting to discover facts about Roman life that any illiterate serving girl in Cicero's time knew well. History was dank with error, irrationality and the poisonous influences of Europe. The New World began afresh. The vast continent of America seemed an immense, wild Eden to be mastered...