Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning last week, 47-year-old Alice McCarthy and her friend went for their usual walk in Chicago's Grant Park. Alice wore a neat suit and a plain dark felt hat. As she walked down a park path, a hand grabbed her and a male voice said: "Come in here, baby." Alice jerked away, whirled when the man threatened to shoot and dropped him with a slug in the stomach. The ambulance people arrived to gather up No. 7, and Alice walked calmly off to the station to make out her report. Then she went back...
...Million Needles. Moische was not any more attractive than the Europe that made him. He was dark and haggard, with sunken eyes, greasy hair and a limp. Yet Moische's story was a kind of 20th Century epic...
...marine in dress blues ushered five sober-looking Japanese into the crowded auditorium of Tokyo's Dai Ichi Building. Their dark, wrinkled civilian suits looked out of place among the sparkling Navy whites, the trim Army sun tans and Marine blues of the U.S. officers, and the summer furs of their ladies. As former staff officers of the Imperial Navy, the Japanese were official witnesses at the disposition of the remains of its fleet-92 vessels of destroyer size and under, which were to be divided among four victor nations. (Heavier ships and submarines have already been scrapped...
...Sickness . . . is caused by very small germs. . . . A lot of them together look like a very small speck. They like the dark, dirty places. A few germs become a lot in a short time. . . . In spit there are too many to think of. . . . No one must spit in the igloo...
...dark-haired, 23-year-old Natalie Evans of Manhattan, who, says Mauldin, "wishes to write...