Word: dankness
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...from the caldrons of the subways came a hot, sour, brownish odor-a smell of sweating men, of dank nests burned out by flamethrowers. Out of the subway's stench emerged boys in grey-green and hobnailed boots. These were among the last-the Hitlerjugend. Some were drunk and some reeled from weariness, some sobbed and some hiccupped. One more Platz in the last long mile to the Wilhelmstrasse had been won, and one more Red banner flapped over a scene of dead bodies and discarded swastika armbands...
...subcellar of Frankfurt, five stories beneath what was once the famed Opera House, reporters found an order of Catholic nuns. For seven months they had lived like troglodytes in the dank, dark earth waiting serenely...
...Rome's dank Palazzo della Sapienza (Palace of Wisdom), the High Court for Punishment of Fascist Crimes weighed the fate of ailing General Mario Roatta...
Slowly the mercury climbed as the men worked forward through a rough country of dank forests, steep hills, sharp little valleys and winding streams. The snow that had blinded them during the German breakthrough, the ice that had immobilized their trucks turned into deep slush and mud through which they slid and slithered...
...difficult, a few copies get through to Moscow- and there are two civilian subscribers in Greenland, two others in Bechuanaland. A copy of every issue travels the length of the Atlantic to a physician in the bleak Falklands, and another goes to a bishop whose diocese is the dank jungles of Belize. There is one TIME subscriber on St. Helena who sometimes gets a whole year's copies at once-and one subscriber each in the Canary, Fanning and Society Islands...