Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Outfitted in a fly-front, oxford-grey topcoat, a pearl-grey felt hat which looked as if it had been sat upon, a dark business suit, blue shirt and white collar, the new Hirohito sallied forth on his first campaign tour. It was only his third peek at the world outside his carp-filled moat since the war's end. He left the palace grounds sitting bolt upright in a big, black Mercedes-Benz. Behind streamed a caravan of 40 other cars...
...Britain had highhandedly agreed to give Russia concessions in the territory of their ally (see INTERNATIONAL). Chinese indignation was heightened by the continued failure of Soviet troops to honor their pledge and quit Manchuria. Seven high Government officials had signed a petition denouncing the Yalta pact as a "dark stain" on U.S. and British relations with China...
...that searing ball came a trip-hammer sequence of blows. First to reach he ground was the radiant heat, which moved with the speed of light (186,000 miles a second). Half a mile away, the heat set clothing and other light, inflammable substances instantly aflame. Dark objects absorbed more radiant heat than light ones. Many a Japanese was branded in stripes from the pattern on his shirt. The gay, flowered designs on the dresses of Japanese women were stenciled in charred exactitude upon their bodies. A mile and a half from the bomb, the flash of heat was strong...
...previous competitions this season, McGill's dark-horse jumpers had been badly beaten. But off Dartmouth's 40-meter hill, they outjumped everything in sight. Final Carnival score: McGill 568.7 points; Dartmouth...
Every Sunday Lipchitz takes a walk round & about Manhattan ("It is when I get nature"). Weekdays he gets up at 6 a.m., works furiously in his Manhattan studio until dark. Says he: "I am only interested in sculpture." New York, he says, is the place for him. "It is so exciting. Everything is set up for work...