Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that civilization's taste for justice was jaded, or that preparations for the trial of high Japanese war criminals had been halfhearted. Allied legal authorities had worked on the 55 -count indictment for eight months. Much care had gone into fitting the courtroom with dark, walnut-toned paneling, imposing daises, convenient perches for the press and motion picture cameramen. The klieg lights suggested a Hollywood premiere...
...South, farmers were still planting root crops in the dark of the moon, and above-the-ground crops when the moon was full. This practice, probably as old as agriculture, was supposed to steer the plants' efforts in the right direction. Elsewhere, farmers still believed that a silver coin in the churn would make butter come faster; that a storm was brewing when pigs ran around with sticks in their mouths, or when cats and rats played together after sundown...
However rough the way may be, the waters dark...
...threw away his boxing gloves and bought a black derby. For the next 50 years, at a saucy angle, the derby accompanied Jimmy Johnston and his winged gab through boxing's shady domain. Wearing neat dark suits, and never smoking nor touching whiskey, he hung out mostly at Lindy's, and talked a kind of gay illiteracy straight out of Damon Runyon...
Some children call it "the dead zoo." Last week kids-and adults-saw a host of disembodied faces keeping company with its stuffed animals. In a dark hall of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, beneath the mottled, 76-ft. belly of a sulphur-bottom whale, the Museum had assembled and spotlighted some 200 masks from all over the world...