Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the Senators are expending so much effort in an investigation that so far has only confirmed the old suspicion that gentlemen prefer blondes. During the war the relations of government and business were so extensive, the number of contracts so vast, that there are bound to be numerous dark corners that need to be looked into, plenty of shady deals that could not bear the light of day. The committee could do the country a real service by uncovering them. But this particular investigation has its own merits from the point of view of the Republicans. For the magic...
...public was let in, in large numbers, but photographers were not. Victor (I Chose Freedom) Kravchenko, onetime Soviet official, was testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee. "Mr. Kravchenko," Committeeman Karl Mundt explained darkly, "may be in considerable danger" if his picture should appear in the papers. Kravchenko consented to having his picture taken afterwards-on his own terms. He carefully changed his blue coat for an investigator's grey jacket, pulled a borrowed Panama down over his eyes, put on dark glasses and shielded his face with his hand. It made a good Page One picture...
Last week, as events reinforced the limb on which he had long been impudently perching, Stabler gibed: "Get yourself a compass, a divining rod, walk backward through a dark alley at three minutes after midnight and everything will be made clear. The first of them who comes out honestly and admits that the hocus-pocus of the Dow theory made him miss nine weeks of the bull market will deserve a seat on the Stock Exchange, upholstered in bearskin...
...Dark streets and alleys were becoming only a memory yesterday for Harvard men accustomed to the enveloping darkness of the square and adjacent through-fares...
Unforgettable Faces. Portinari lives in an old Portuguese colonial house with faded shutters and a tangled garden in Laranjeiras, a Rio suburb, with his dark-eyed, trim Uruguayan wife and their eight-year...