Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dogwood bloomed white and pink in Rock Creek Park and fishermen were out along the Potomac. Vacationing tourists were everywhere-swarming through the Capitol's dark corridors, leveling their cameras at the White House and the Washington Monument. In this fine spring atmosphere members of the House approved what was probably a peacetime record for one week's check-signing ($24 billion), then headed for home and a ten-day vacation. The Senate, far behind in its work, labored...
Among his students was Reggie Schneiderman, nee Karasick, the wife of Willie Schneiderman, another paid functionary of the party. Willie had stayed at his assignments in California. Reggie, born in Brooklyn, was 19, cute and lively, with dark curly hair. In the summer woods...
...Twain sequence, however, is butchered almost beyond belief. The climactic total eclipse scene is so speeded up that the whole affair could easily be mistaken for a small but dark cloud passing in front of the sun. Hollywood, it seems, is so dreadfully afraid of boring its customers that it baffles them instead...
...Angeles, lies a strange, unnatural lake. It is eleven miles long and four miles wide, with clearly defined shores and what look like beaches. But, except for a short time after a rare desert rain, the lake has no water. Its smooth and precisely level surface is cement-hard dark-red mud. Its one surface craft is a weathered wooden dummy battleship, built long ago as a bomber target. Above it, in the bright desert sky, thunder the real craft of Muroc Dry Lake...
...Force did wonders for the "timid" boy. In 1941, when he was 18, Chuck graduated from high school and enlisted as a private. He was trained as a mechanic, but was soon sent to flying school in various Western states. In northern California he met pretty, dark-haired Glennis Faye Dickhouse. Since then, all his fighting aircraft have been named Glamourous Glennis. Even the X-1 has Glamourous Glennis painted on its nose, but official Air Force pictures do not show...