Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long as its leaders could not make up their minds, the nation blundered down a dark road. Last week the blunderer made a sudden turn. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, a man of many turnings, rose and spoke words which heartened the world...
...over the rural U.S., the alarm spread: the gaily printed cotton flour sack, time-tested foundation of the nation's farm fashions, was going out with the white flour. According to the crossroad rumors, the recent dark-flour order (see BUSINESS) had caused U.S. millers to substitute plain muslin, disdainfully stamped EMERGENCY FLOUR, for the gay old bags...
...Grande Valse Brillante in A Minor, Opus 34, is a waltz only by virtue of its three-four time; its tempo (lento) brings it closer to the dark introspective nocturnes and preludes. To Horowitz, however, a waltz must be a waltz; by speeding it up to almost twice its generally accepted tempo, he gives it a ballroom flavor it was never meant to have...
...Each has enough "technical advisers" to set up a Hollywood branch of the Nuclear Physicists' Club, although there is little new which the scientists can disclose. Tension has mounted: customers at Mike Romanoff's posh eatery now talk in whispers instead of in the regulation Hollywood yell. Dark diplomacy is hinted...
...house. The soil produced lavishly. The stock was prolific. So was the local population: the countryside was studded with illegitimate kinsmen, the result of neighbors indiscriminately "laying up" with each other. It was in fact a husbandman's paradise-but rather like a paradise on the dark side of the moon. Author MacDonald had sometimes dreamed of a little haunt far from the clawing hands of civilization with its telephones, electric appliances, artificial amusements and artificial people. After nine stimulating months with the mountains, the trees, the rain and the chickens, "I would have swooned with anticipation...