Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white clouds sat motionless as mashed potatoes on the horizon. Early bugs died on windshields on Connecticut's Merritt Parkway. Sunbathers gathered in tentative knots along Los Angeles beaches despite ocean fog. Across the Midwest, spring plowing went on day & night; tractors with headlights rumbled across fields after dark like one-eyed monsters. From coast to coast men pulled on high boots and went fishing...
...week, the "foreign press" had indeed speculated feverishly on the Berlin situation. The Paris newspaper Figaro reported that a tall, dark, mysterious man, who was neither a diplomat nor a Russian, had gone to Washington to extend "feelers." U.S. newspapermen picked up many a remote sound and relayed it homewards...
...brothers: "There's nothing in them but they're awfully good. You eat them one at a time." A little girl clutched a large Cellophane-wrapped goody as if it were a doll. Explained her father: "She's never seen so much in her life." In dark, narrow alleys off Regent Street, boys played a game of marbles with rock candy balls, and the winners had a feast...
...journalist and orator, Muñoz Marin has combined high principles and shrewd politics to fashion a career that astonishes the friends and enemies who, only a few years ago, regarded him as dilettante, dreamer, revolutionary and bohemian. Muñoz is a husky, stoop-shouldered man with eloquent dark eyes, a big nose, a cleft chin and furrowed brow. Except when he is amused or surprised, his face has a kind of built-in sad-angry expression...
...varsity race will be the climax of an afternoon-long regatta, which will begin at 2:30 p.m. The weather bureau predicts far better racing conditions than prevailed last week, when the 150's were postponed until after dark...