Word: blackening
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...teamed together in the days when trainmen booted them off freights. Those days are long ago for Dempsey; his critics declare that he has softened; it is true. How could it not be true? Only when he is in the ring do those days come back. Then his brows blacken in a manner unbecoming to the hero of a sentimental cinema; his body, muscled like a panther cat's, seems to ignite with malice, to burn and flash; then his fists reach out, savagely, lethally, to destroy the weaving shape in front of him and get revenge for something...
...rained. Cozily seated at green-gold tables in the green-gold Hotel Imperial, Tokyo, wealthy wayfarers watched the sky blacken through the rain. All over Tokyo it rained...
...Eastman exploits single incidents of the party discussion to blacken our party and to undermine all confidence by perverting the meaning of facts. I should think, however, that any serious and reflective reader need not even take the trouble to verify Eastman's references and 'documents' (which, moreover, would not be accessible to everybody), but would find it sufficiently simple to ask himself, if the derogatory characteristics given by Eastman to the leading personnel of our party had been true, how could this party have gone through the long years of underground struggle, have made the greatest...
President Gates, of Rutgers has refused permission to the students to give a minstrel entertainment for the benefit of the Athletic Association. Prof. Gates thinks it beneath the dignity of students to blacken their faces and appear on the stage...
...idlers now blacken the benches on Jarvis field these late sunny days, when the nine is practising...