Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dark-walled committee room, a Conservative member, often a stern critic of Lange's Laborite policies, huffed: "Couldn't be better; don't alter one word." A few words were altered. The reply was delivered at the Soviet embassy 71 hours after the protest had been received...
...dream of painting himself by candlelight. He got up, lit a candle, put on his old green jacket and began to paint furiously; about three hours later he stopped, leaving the lower fourth of the portrait unpainted. Even unfinished, it was a work exploding with energy. Out of the dark haft of the body the bony head leaped like a candle flame; the face, green-eyed and red-lipped, glared with the fury of a fire-demon; and around it burned a halo of white heat, darkening outward to citron and orange. By dawn Van Gogh had lost interest...
...mines. With 500 others, Abraham was marched away to a field outside town, ordered to stand in front of an anti-tank ditch and stripped of his clothes. He fainted, and fell too soon to hear the staccato of the German machine guns. When he awoke it was dark and rainy, the ditch was filled with bodies. Abraham lay still. Later he crawled on hands and knees and found four other men who had survived. The men hid in a haystack and, in the morning, cautiously made their way to the nearest village...
Abstractions In Canterbury. The earliest of the manuscripts, dating from the dark ages of Europe, had been strongboxes of Christian culture. Done mostly on calfskin parchment and laced with burnished gold and rainbow colors, they had kept fresh and shining through the centuries. One of them, an 8th Century psalter believed to have been made by the monks of Canterbury, was decorated with twining capital letters as abstract and whimsically complicated as any paintings produced today. Another, dating from the early 9th Century in France, was a book of the four Gospels written entirely in gold on pages dyed purple...
...research for children). Without fuss, in simple, almost conversational style, he expresses the love and comradeship he felt for his son, gives a step-by-step account of cancer's inexorable victory. In so doing, Gunther arouses in the reader an almost deliberate passion to help find the dark enemy and destroy...