Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swiss knew that even the white Alps throw dark shadows. Swiss engineers were pouring more concrete into the mountain strongholds built during World War II. The Government voted 18,000,000 francs ($4,500,000) for atomic research...
Those who did not join, they explained, were not given food or a place to sleep. Anyone who criticized the Russians in any way was promptly expelled. "We don't know what democracy is," said a dark, fragile girl student, "and the S.E.D. is forcing us into the same pattern the Nazis...
...Dark, fierce-eyed Otto Klemperer has the awe-inspiring, fiery look of an Old Testament prophet. And, like Job, he has been sorely afflicted. Last week, at 61, after years of tragedy, Conductor Klemperer was making a European comeback...
...dark, cold, turf-walled farmhouse, Bjartur's wife lies dead in a pool of her own blood. The fire in the stove has gone out. The oil lamp is empty. On the bed, with only a half-starved dog to warm it, lies a newborn baby...
...greatest embalming job of the 20th Century was the mummification of V. I. Lenin. Until last week, the technique had always remained a dark secret of Soviet science. Finally, Dr. Herwig Hamperl, famed Austrian pathologist who taught in Moscow and was a close friend of the embalmers, let the world in on some of the secret...