Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pressure. I talked with Oskar Kochne, a blue-eyed, 21-year-old veteran of the Soviet zone's uranium mines. He was still wearing his dark blue miner's cap with its little aluminum shield of crossed hammers. Oskar was taken by the Russians almost two years ago, as he was traveling toward East Prussia to rejoin his family. The Reds sent him to the mining camp at Aue. He has worked there since, rising at 1:30 every morning, traveling two hours by rail to the closely guarded mines, working until 1 in the afternoon...
...Lodging for the Night. Helga is a handsome, smiling seven-year-old with dancing blue eyes, braided hair, and a rag doll which she swung gaily by its feet as we talked. She told me she was from Lehnin and her father & mother were waiting in the dark hall outside. Herr Arnold finally appeared-a hunchback under five feet tall. His brown, leathery face pursed up with a wry grin as he explained his prosaic cause for flight. He had idly signed a petition for the re-election of the local mayor. After a new mayor was elected, Arnold...
...democrats." They are no more than families in flight. Doctors and lawyers, Zeiss technicians and garage mechanics, slave miners and girls tired of being raped in Soviet mess halls-they have nothing in common but their flight from evil and terror, from the lie and the lash. Down their dark, narrow corridor they come, heading, half drunk with fear, toward a single, small light...
...Toscanini-trained musicians of the NBC Symphony Orchestra blinked, then stared: Was it Frank Sinatra? At first glance, the boyish-looking, new guest conductor was a dead ringer for Frankie: wispy, wire-thin, sallow-cheeked and dark-haired. But when 28-year-old Guido Cantelli stepped to the podium and rapped his baton, the jokes stopped. By the time Guido had driven them through bar-by-bar rehearsals of Hindemith and Haydn without looking at a score-gesturing and singing fa-sol-la-tis to make up for his lack of English-musicians were murmuring about "terrific talent...
...Armstrong, 49, a cherub-cheeked man who is nervously cheerful about his big job of staying ahead of Ford; Buick's Ivan L. Wiles, 50, a tall, greying statistician who moved up from comptroller into Red Curtice's job; Oldsmobile's Sherrod E. Skinner, 52, a dark, heavyset, prim engineer; and Pontiac's Harry J. Klingler, 59, lean, angular and eager, a bow-tied salesman who always has one more funny story up his sleeve when Wilson runs...