Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unruh saw a good bit of combat as a tank gunner in Italy and France. But unlike most front-line soldiers he never smoked, swore or chased girls. He drank a little kümmel, but only as an experiment. He was a slender, shy, high-domed youth with dark hair, pallid skin, thick lips and sunken cheeks...
Cries in the Dark. With night falling fast, the errant balloonist took stock of his situation. "The altimeter," he said later, "was the only instrument I had in the bas. ket. I looked in my pockets to see what else there might be. There was a pocketknife for opening beer bottles, a handkerchief and 1,650 Belgian francs. Nothing else." Bravely the bold aeronaut straightened the pink tie that hung across his cream-colored shirt. Belgium and the motorboat were fast disappearing in the gloaming to windward. As Holland's Walcheren Island coasted by, van der Straeten noticed...
...hours after the 210 top amateur golfers s"et out to decide who would be U.S. champion for 1949, the tournament came to a water-logged stop. Rain beat down on Rochester's Oak Hill course. When play was resumed, it was too dark for Ted Bishop, the 1946 champion, to complete his first-round match-and he bowed early next morning to a Denver schoolteacher named John Kraft...
...last day, as amazed as anybody at their success, two dark horses met as finalists. Rufus King and Charlie Coe had grown up nine miles from each other across the Texas-Oklahoma line, but were playing golf together for the first time...
When the Reverend Samuel Parris took the ministry of tiny Salem Village in 1689, he brought with him two dark-skinned slaves he had picked up while trading in Barbados. One of the slaves, an ageless woman named Tituba, became the darling of Salem's teen-age girls. In a stern Puritan community that shunned amusement, Tituba's stealthy demonstrations of West Indian voodoo could be wonderfully thrilling. But to children like Betty Parris and her cousin Abigail the shows also brought spasms of guilt, for they were convinced they were trafficking with the devil...