Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington last week a slender, dark girl saw with her own eyes that Persia had powerful friends in the U.S. Several hundred people thronged the elegant, red brick Persian Embassy to shake hands with Her Imperial Highness Ashraf Pahlevi, twin sister of Persia's ruling Shah. President Truman received her in the White House, and Bess Truman was there too. This week the State Department scheduled a big, brilliant reception...
Through the long grass a cobra glided toward the dark-eyed little girl as she lay in the garden, reading. Silently it slithered behind her, raised its head, spread its threatening hood. As her father, looking up from his book, saw the cobra swaying above her, he whispered a tense warning not to move. Realizing that some danger lurked behind her, she stayed quite still until the snake slid away into the grass. From that day on, her superstitious mother was sure that a great destiny awaited the little girl, for there is an old Indian legend that luck will...
...with an odd impulse to get something off his chest to a Negro editor named Leon Lewis. In June, he had summoned Lewis to his side. The man who had preached race hate with a venom seldom exceeded in U.S. history delivered a reluctant and rambling apology to his dark-skinned visitor...
...came about that three couples, each made up of a burly ex-partisan (representing the town council) and a prim, Catholic spinster (representing the church) made the rounds. Barbi muttered darkly: "Why, those partisans haven't any sense. They will let those monstrous females do all the talking and convince the poor that it's the priest and not the municipality giving them the money." Meanwhile, Father Bernardoni knelt before the Virgin Mary with a group of demure, dark-eyed members of the Catholic Girls' Association, and prayed loudly: "Helper of Virgins, please help Miss Bianca, Miss...
...price-a Fiumicinian who worked wonders with all machinery, by the name of Giordano Bruno Rocchi. But he was a violent anticlerical who would not do any work for the "priest-ridden Clock Committee." So the leftists formed their own "Citizens' Committee" for repairing the clock, and one dark stormy night, they spirited the clock's works to Rocchi's tiny hole of a shop near the waterfront. Gaunt, sallow Rocchi peered at the clock with his black-rimmed eyes, and began work immediately...