Word: blackest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...iron curtain [of censorship] is in the control of governments. It is the people in these areas who die for want of bread. ... It is the people-pitiful, suffering, starving millions of them facing what will probably be the blackest, cruelest winter since the age of plagues-from whom our aid would be withheld...
...word must have been passed even in the deepest and blackest holes of these poverty-stricken countries that there was a new deal on, forceful rule was out, and equality because you're a HUMAN BEING in 11 The Indonesians try to rule their own country, the Annamese revolt against the return of French rule, and they're cut down by machine-gun fire like animals. I can't understand the mental make-up of people who were themselves just released from the yoke of the vanquished and now take up the mantle of Conqueror again...
...time. On the blackest night in U.S. naval history, off Savo Island, the Japs destroyed the Allied cruisers Astoria, Quincy, Vincennes and Canberra. Pat, hit and hurt, stood by and picked up 400 survivors. It was the kind of work expected of destroyers. They were the tin cans and expendable...
...area for rest periods were charged as much as $40 a day for hotel rooms. Many wives could not afford to be with their servicemen husbands. War-wealthy civilians, who came for the races and were openly annoyed by the presence of soldiers, battened on the nation's blackest black market. Pressagent Hannagan had his work cut out for him; Miami Beach's face needed a thorough scrubbing...
Gloom hung heavy over all the western clubs, but the blackest cloud was over the once-mighty Cardinals (who had only managed to break even in 26 games). First Marty Marion and Al Schoendienst went on the injured list, then Pitcher Max Lanier went home for probable induction. At this point Mort Cooper, the Cards' No. 1 pitcher, walked out. He still wanted his paycheck boosted to $15,000 or else (TIME, April...