Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invented one. Dime-sized, it featured a cerulean teardrop oozing from a dark blue morning-glory. Around its edges, in gold and blue, were the words: "WAR MEMORIAL AWARD." In her hotel room, Mom wrote a poem to go with...
Under the new international bridge, the muddy Rio Uruguay raced in flood. But on the bridge Argentine troopers and Brazilian marines stood at immaculate attention. A strapping figure in the uniform of an Argentine general, and a tired little man in a dark civilian suit advanced toward each other. At midstream the two men snipped a ceremonial tape, then embraced. Thus, last week, after many postponements, Argentina's President Juan Perón and Brazil's President Caspar Eurico Dutra inaugurated the Augustin Justo bridge that links their countries...
...years, Billy Rose has sprinted breathlessly (sometimes sidestepping, and down dark alleys) from grinding poverty to easeful wealth, from chalk on the sidewalk to a Rembrandt in his parlor, from a cold-water tenement to elegant $100,000 diggings on Manhattan's Beekman Place...
...young and old who make the dark...
...like the Devil himself. On the European continent, a steady procession of harmless men, women and children went to terrible deaths as witches. In England, where religious problems were less acute, and the authorities considered witchcraft more a criminal offense than a heresy, the record was not so dark. Torture, to extract confessions, was rarely employed, and Author Hole estimates that between the time of Queen Elizabeth and 1736 (when witchcraft trials became illegal), not more than 1,000 witches lost their lives by official decree...