Word: dankness
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...this doleful headline, the Liverpool Daily Post last week welcomed back 50 English war brides, who had tried life in Canada and found it wanting. As the liner Cavina was warped into the Liverpool dock through dank, grey mist, the homesick homecomers clutched their children and wept...
...glumly played bridge indoors. Farmers and home gardeners watched their tomatoes, starved for sunlight, refused to redden. Lawns stayed green through August; human skins stayed untanned. When city folk streamed home disgustedly after Labor Day, many had the feeling that they had weathered al most an entire summer of dank Aleutian cold...
...delays, heard loudspeakers blare warnings that arrivals were not guaranteed. But they bought their tickets as usual. Out of Chicago's Union Station chuffed the Pennsylvania's Washington flyer, Liberty Limited, booked almost solid, as usual. In Newark a commuter electric train pulled out for its dank run through the Hudson River tubes to Manhattan. But out went a notice: that would be the last Hudson & Manhattan train to New York City...
Hard spring rains slanted into Poland's Palmiry Forest. The dank woods were full of muted human voices. Under trees that had seen 300 springs, workmen hunched against the weather, moved about looking for young, slender pines. With them went uniformed foresters, guiding, pointing...
...impatient man has no business in a photographic darkroom, but if one should find himself there, Eastman Kodak is ready to ease his dank tedium. Ready last week were two new fast-action print papers: Resisto N for contact prints, Resisto Rapid for enlargements...