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Word: dankness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Even when office schedules are conducive to sharing, however, groups say the dank Yard basements are far from palatial...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre, Kevin E. Meyers, and Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: College Space, Policies Fail Student Groups | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

...though I dug up a pile of books to sift through, Widener doesn't provide much in the way of study space. The building doesn't even offer e-mail access. I could have situated myself at one of the carrels in the basement in dank air beneath leaky pipes, but I happened to find something better...

Author: By James Y. Stern, | Title: Endpaper: Frozen Out of Widener | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

...though I dug up a pile of books to sift through, Widener doesn't provide much in the way of study space. The building doesn't even offer e-mail access. I could have situated myself at one of the carrels in the basement in dank air beneath leaky pipes, but I happened to find something better...

Author: By James Y. Stern, | Title: FROZEN OUT OF WIDENER | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

...movie sometimes seems its own slamfest of verbal and visual attitudinizing. But Levin is attentive to the rhythms and politics of street and prison life: shootings that disrupt a conversation, animosities expressed in upended food trays. Gradually, the film's earnestness pays dividends in accumulated passion; its colliding moods--dank pessimism and loopy sentimentality--finally embrace. And it's always nice to see an independent film made by people who aren't secretly angling to produce the next season of Caroline in the City. This is more like "Caroling in the Inner City," especially in a strong scene in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Poet in the Pokey | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...funk. Their trademark beat is something they descriptively term a "gangadank", or as Doughty describes it in the album's press release "a kind of guitar rhythm I invented in an attempt to recreate a hip-hop groove on an acoustic guitar--it goes gankadank, gank-duh-did-dank...

Author: By Erin E. Billings, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Coughing Bears: Fracturing the Narrative and Other Misadventures | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

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