Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no doubt that slim, dark, 30-year-old Dorothy L. Burns was desperately ill. But what had caused her chest pains, coughing spasms, and the slow fibrous degeneration of both lungs...
...hated Lavrenty Beria, head of the secret police. Of those below Zhdanov, his most serious rival is Georgi Malenkov, 44, a brilliant backstairs intriguer. Others are Anastas Mikoyan, the Armenian foreign trade chief, who enjoys Stalin's personal favor but has little party following, and a dark horse, Nikolai Bulganin, the political boss of the Army. Molotov, Beria and Malenkov are loosely grouped as the reactionary anti-Westerners. But as long as Stalin lives the whole gang will stick together, and Zhdanov, who was once against mass purges, will willingly follow the Politburo's cultural purge wherever...
...conventional beauty, but her face is founded on beautifully modeled, well-spaced bones. It will be a pity if Hollywood's make-up experts are tempted to tamper with her thick, dark eyebrows and wide, expressive mouth. Her legs are all right as they...
...Whitman designed her bright colors in elaborate motifs, gave each motif a name. Examples: a yellow ticker tape tangled with prancing red devils, called "Ticker Tape"; a naked urchin facing a dark-green background of cactus, called "Cactus Also Needs Water." (There are also a few less discreet themes which have to be kept under the vest in polite company.) For snob appeal, Mrs. Whitman printed only 30 dozen of each design, with her crested monogram on each...
...anguished seer that Tolstoy became after a religious crisis at 50 attracted both fame and followers of a kind that Sonya did not like. She hated the "institution" of her husband. Worn out by childbearing, jealous of his disciples (she called them "dark people"), infuriated by his decision to give up the copyrights on all his work after 1881, she gradually became a hysterical paranoiac. The familiar story of the last 25 years of their life together is terrible, ending in the old man's wild flight from home at 82, to die of pneumonia in a stationmaster...