Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disappeared behind a grey overcast, and a great stillness fell over the eastern Colorado plains. After that a freezing wind rose, banged barn doors and snatched at the smoke from lonely ranch houses. It grew dark, and salt-like snow began hissing across leagues of sere buffalo grass. Then, for 48 hours, a blizzard-the worst in 33 years-moaned down out of Wyoming with nothing to stop it but fence posts and cottonwood trees...
...Talle Ranch near Aroya, tough, greying Manager Elmer Ray rounded up three of the tractors. Then, with six muffled, red-eyed cowhands, he set out across the prairies, clearing a path for the cattle. It was heartbreaking work; they fought drifts by day, worked by lantern light after dark "caking" the tired stock with concentrated protein feed. But in a week they got 2,500 of their 3,600 fine Herefords into railroad cars and on their way to market...
...games played between these two institutions, none have probably equaled the drama of the years 1929 through 1931, when the famous Barry Wood-Albie Booth rivalry held the nation's interest. Wood, one of the greatest athletic figures in Crimson history, was tall, dark, and powerful. Booth was small, crafty, and renowned for his place-kicking ability...
Precisely what is to happen on the field between the halves must remain a dark secret, according to Jay Skinner '48, new Manager, though the assurances are that for the Ivy League's biggest post-war day, local color will run "as high as you would want...
...with forgeries of great art masterpieces. This is the sort of thing that Humphrey Bogart shows up in every year or two, to everybody's huge delight, but the aging O'Brien isn't quite in the same league when it comes to evading cops and prowling in dark rooms...