Word: dankness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your water safe? The company or municipal authority that supplies it is required by federal law to give you an analysis and disclose any violation of health standards. But even if you can trust the company, the report won't tell you what happens to the water in the dank recesses of your own plumbing system. The only way to know precisely what's coming out of your tap is to have your water tested. The EPA's Safe Drinking-Water Hotline (800-426-4791) offers names of testing laboratories in individual states. The hot line can also answer technical...
...this year some, including Sporting News magazine, have predicted that Coach Ray Tellier and his Lions are ready to emerge from the dark and dank cellar of the Ivy League and trade a horrific season for a merely mediocre...
...gravely serious man in glasses and a dark suit moves and speaks like the polished trial lawyer he once was. In the dank humidity of an auditorium in the Massachusetts State House, he makes his case insistently, weaving numbers and exposition into a seamless argument. In the future, he says, 60% of the U.S. Navy's shipyard work will involve nuclear-powered vessels. More than half the ships in for repair will be submarines; most of those will be Los Angeles- class attack submarines. "The most experienced shipyard in servicing Los Angeles subs," he declaims, "is the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard...
...Crimson finished last season with a distressing 4-9 record overall, 1-5 Ivy, the only Ancient Eight team it beat was one accustomed to smelling the dark, dank waters of the cellar--Dartmouth...
...Kronauer Space--a cramped, dingy, dark and dank recess somewhere off the vibrant labyrinth of the Adams House tunnels--provides the ideal stage for Jean Genet's Deathwatch, a play set during the 1940's in a cell-block of an unspecified French prison. Genet's drama percolates with modernist tensions of alienation, violence, passion and, of course, nihilism. These tensions play themselves out within the network of complicated relationships which inevitably arise when you cram three male convicts into a dark cell in the basement of Adams House...