Word: dank
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...foundation's "headquarters" (a fancy term for her tiny collective, run on a shoestring with loans from a New York City john). It may be the only place in the world written up in both Penthouse and Civilization, the Library of Congress magazine. When Giecek first explored the dank basement rooms, which the madams hadn't used since the '40s, he found lipsticks, a 10-minute timer, chamber pots, an ancient jar of Vaseline. In one room, the bed frame had worn through the flooring...
...after the terror had claimed the heads of his father and mother, Louis Charles--next in line for the French throne--finally earned his release from the Temple prison in Paris. He had suffered the dank filth, the coarse ministrations of a guardian cobbler and long periods of isolation before succumbing, at age 10, to tuberculosis. The prince was dead. Vive la Revolution...
...next day the filmmakers' guerrilla-marketing tactics proved more successful: the audience that turned up to watch the movie nearly filled the dank screening room at No Dance. After a few promising minutes, though, SMTA!!! became a mess of dull, endless, off-color jokes. By the movie's climax, about a third of the audience had left, and those remaining (family? friends? people who were sexually probed by aliens?) weren't laughing. In the end, Crowley didn't win the award for best picture or best director. But the aliens did get the nod for "Best Guerrilla Marketing...
...instead, Hemenway Gymnasium remains an athletic facility with twisting, shadowy hallways, a dank weight room next to a hissing furnace and smaller-than-regulation-size squash courts. Hemenway makes the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) look cutting edge...
...restraint for their age and weight, or don't install the safety seat correctly. I regularly get letters from readers who are confused about these matters. So when I saw that the safety agency was planning a big push on child-passenger safety in February, I went to its dank parking garage in downtown Washington for a hands-on demonstration. Though it's not rocket science, I learned that it does take some concentration (and exertion) to make the kiddies as secure as possible...