Word: dankness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Government documents and microforms currently occupy a dank, cramped space in Lamont's sub-sub-basement. Twenty-five years ago, gov does were temporarily placed in this library underworld. Misplaced University priorities left it there for more than a decade...
...Bush's battle group was winging on its thunderous way, Mort Engelberg, the Hollywood producer turned bus-caravan impresario for the Clinton-Gore campaign, was in a dank Cleveland hotel mapping yet another ground-level incursion down the back ways of this civilization through Ohio and around Lake Erie to Buffalo. The earlier buscades along the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys were surprisingly successful strikes, finding people in neighborhoods where they lived, not at airports or pre-packaged arenas. Reporters from local television stations could hitch a bus ride for a hundred bucks or so a day, compared with more...
...prison, with a colonnaded inner courtyard where the inmates, clad in bright orange jackets, could stroll in pairs. Inside, brightly colored dayrooms equipped with televisions, butcher-block tables and cushy chairs completed a picture of serenity. For inmates and their watchers alike, it was a far cry from the dank, forbidding, Victorian-style Suffolk County House of Correction they had left behind on the banks of Boston Harbor. Gone were the five tiers of cages, the earsplitting clash of steel against steel as hundreds of cell doors slammed shut in unison; gone was the cavernous, clattering mess hall, whose ambiance...
...search for local hypnotists, when I let my fingers do the walking through the Yellow Pages, I expected to find listings for "Magic Marla" and "Hypnotist Hilda" entries that promised an experience of body-possession or body-snatching. I expected to enter a dark and dank hole in the wall and arrive at a psychadelic mecca, complete with crystal ball and entrancer clad in gypsy-garb...
Obviously it meant war. No momentary lapse of reason would damn us to the dank labyrinths underneath that depressing medieval castle. We would rail against the grippe of German philosophy and black turtlenecks. We would extinguish smoking. Vegetarians (and other radicals) would convert, or die at our hands. The Bright Clothes Coalition was born...