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Word: dampness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...night is dark and a bit damp, but still warm, as I make the short trek back to Winthrop House. Feet weary and eyes bleary, I reflect on the journey I have just completed. I have just attended more parties in one night than some students know about in four years...

Author: By Lisa J. Powell, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Just Can't Get Enough: One Night, 15 Parties | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

...Bold, elite haze 2) Damp old runt 3) Sod! I'm rum nerd 4) Legal bits 5) Postulate huge ignorance 6) Oh my God! I rail up urinal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook Placemat: GROW YOUR BRAIN! TEST YOUR SKILLS! | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...also puts viewers in touch with director David Fincher's preferred mise-en-scene, which is almost always dark and, more important, damp--with rusty water, gushing blood and other bodily fluids of less determinable origins. It's definitely a style--see his Seven of a few years ago--and it enforces the contrast between the sterilities of his characters' aboveground life and their underground one. Water, even when it's polluted, is the source of life; blood, even when it's carelessly spilled, is the symbol of life being fully lived. To put his point simply: it's better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Conditional Knockout | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...lifeguard and where, he would eventually claim, he made 77 rescues over the years: "He was deeply tan, and at least four inches taller than when I had last seen him. His chest was bigger, his legs stronger and straighter... Presently he shrugged off the top of his damp suit. The loops fell away, leaving behind pale ghosts of themselves. Midges sang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mixing Fact and Fiction | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

Choose one that lets you get off and tour the islands--some were used for military operations in the Civil War and George's Island, the site of fort warren which held about 2000 Confederate prisoners during the war, contains a network of damp, dark tunnels which you can explore. The islands comprise Boston Harbor Island State Park...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Livin' is Easy | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

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