Word: blackest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blackest day in U.S. airline history came with a great mass of cold air from the Arctic. It thrust a freezing finger as far south as the Texas panhandle, rested its chilly knuckles on the Great Lakes, spumed in ice, rain and mist where its skin touched warmer...
...Conspirators. All that happened between then and sunrise, when 17-year-old Peter Karageorgevitch proclaimed himself King Peter II, may never be known except to the few who made those three hours of history. What happened at the White Palace of the Prince Regent was shrouded in blackest secrecy...
Wrote Timesman Darnton: "The record is not blackest at Meade [but] ... a fair example. . . . According to Thurman Arnold, Assistant U. S. Attorney General, union glaziers at one camp quoted their initiation...
...culmination of a week in which Folke-Wulf Kurier bombers reported three certain and three probable sinkings 300 miles off Portugal, the Madeira story made some of the blackest reading for the British since the counter-blockade got under...
...annual conference of the Trades Union Congress (T. U. C.). Keynote speaker was horny-handed, dynamic Ernest Bevin, who since 1910 has slugged and plugged for organized labor, is now Minister of Labor. "The British labor movement came to the rescue of this nation and the Commonwealth at the blackest hour of its history," he shouted, assailing Toryism with fighting words born of confidence in the growing power of Labor. The reconstruction of the world, he declared, must come about "through harnessing the rising masses of Labor, to whom the future really belongs." "Pink-tea diplomats" and "court-circular society...