Word: blacken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard, they carried a meat cleaver with them when they confronted the administration with their demands.... Most of you have silently allowed the Hitler-type revolutionaries to blacken your reputation in America and throughout the world.... Your good name and your reputation have definitely been blackened because all around the world they have pronounced you guilty of... howling foul curse words at respected public officials,... kidnapping college presidents,... killing police,... burning banks." He took some of the soft, reproachful tone from his voice, and put in the hardness of a politician making a point "America is not perfect, but while...
Before the smoke and soot from the burning coal and wood of the Industrial Revolution began to blacken the bark of England's trees, the predominant variety of peppered moth had light-colored, speckled wings that blended perfectly with lichen-covered tree bark and camouflaged the insects against predatory birds. A mutant form of the moth, with black wings, was easily spotted against the light-colored tree bark, picked off and eaten. The surviving black moths were so rare, in fact, that the first one was not captured until...
...Blacken made the most adventurous move of his life, since the day he left home to come to Herr-varied. He gave up the career of a midwestern lawyer to follow his more generous emotions and take a more exciting job. As an executive of the Mayo Clinic, he established a reputation as an intelligent, generous administrator, and also brought himself to the attention of prominent Minnesota politicians. Nobody was very surprised when, in 1959, President Eisenhower appointed him to the Federal Court in Minnesota. As he wrote to his class in his Thirty-Fifth Report...