Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...widows and their 31 children began the lament Plymouth had heard after two other Nottingham explosions-in 1890 (eight dead) and in 1910 (seven dead). While gas-masked rescuers battled for their bodies, the names of the dead-Craynik, Parker, Zonobrowski, Bockus, Wilde, Ostrowski, Lewis-ran through the dark like a sigh...
...happened. The Chimara, a onetime German hospital ship, shuddered and stopped as an explosion ripped away her port bow. Her engine-room belched clouds of steam and flames. Passengers lurched through dark corridors to the decks. Soon they were a tight-packed mass of cursing, fear-crazed people, fighting to get into the ship's eight lifeboats...
Parkhurst, neatly dressed in a dark blue coat and gray flannels, said nothing in his own defense, but his attorney explained that he held a job as an "expediter" during the war in which he had "unlimited funds, and was in the habit of spending freely...
What keeps me in the dark...
...narrator, had known the SS years before in Dachau, whence he escaped to become a laborer on Frau Rehbach's farm. Gustave can look beyond frightened Willy to enjoy the Alpine spring. "There was still snow upon the summit of the Lady in White, which rose over the dark lake, dwarfing it as the cathedral tower dwarfs the rain puddle. . . ." While a detachment of U.S. troops is making a bordello out of the village inn, the SS men descend from the pine forests to seize Gustave and the Wiedemeyers...