Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Richard Milhouse Nixon, dark, lank Quaker attorney who turned a California grass-roots campaign (dubbed "hopeless" by wheelhorse Republicans) into a triumph over high-powered, high-minded Democratic incumbent Jerry Voorhis. To beat Voorhis, ex-Navy Lieut. Commander Nixon, 33, passed around 25,000 white plastic thimbles labeled:-"Elect Nixon and needle the P.A.C." He plugged hard for veteran's housing, end of controls, a bipartisan foreign policy, politely avoided personal attacks on his opponent...
...thing, the rip tide of bitterness and distrust between Southern Democrats and Democratic left-wingers was widening. As representatives of P.A.C. I.C.C.A.S.P. and other left-wing factions held a council of war in Washington last week, there was dark talk of a third party...
Hefty Louis Cortese, 31, had worked for Hearst and for Stage magazine. Dark-haired Jack Begon, 35, had run a shortlived Cosmopolis (Wash.) weekly, had done make-up on the San Francisco Chronicle. Lean, Groucho-mustached Bill de Meza, 28, had reported for the Plainfield (NJ.) Courier News...
...Dark Mirror. Suave whodunit with Olivia de Havilland and Lew Ayres (TIME...
Poetry's modern apologists have cried up modern poetry as such a dark art that many an intelligent reader has given it up as sense-making literature, written by human beings for human beings. In this book, Poets Gregory and Zaturenska (Mrs. Gregory) do a good deal to bring the 20th Century Pegasus back to earth. They contend that U.S. poetry in this century, gaming "in the virility and'brilliance of its speech," has become the best in the English-speaking world...