Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dark outside and a prairie wind was driving cold, dry snow when the Charge of Quarters walked into Monson's squad room and let go with a blast of his whistle...
Road Block. That day a tactical problem was scheduled. By 9:15 the five M-24 light tanks (all the company had personnel to maintain) were ready, purring smoothly in their dark, throaty...
When the Crockers moved into their district two years ago, neighbors were quick to notice that Mrs. Crocker and her three daughters were very dark. The whisper went round-the Crockers were Negroes. The truth was that Mrs. Crocker's father had been a full-blooded Iroquois. The daughters had inherited her dark hair, olive-brown skin, and black-brown eyes...
...Crocker, of French Canadian descent, was a mild-mannered, grey-haired man who worked for a camera manufacturer. Mrs. Crocker ran a gift shop in Hollywood. Muriel, 30, kept house; Alicia, 20, posed for art classes; Jeanne, 13, was in school. They were all Catholics. But their skins were dark...
Woolworth's fell back on a few gas lamps which had never been removed-but now gas pressure was low, because many Londoners turned up the gas for heat. Dickins & Jones's big store was almost empty. It had one dissatisfied customer, who tried hard in the dark to distinguish between silk and linen materials. She muttered: "Drat this! I thought we'd finished with blackouts." In Fortnum & Mason's flower department a girl clerk said crossly: "I wish people wouldn't be so goodhearted about it all ... then maybe something could be done...