Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Candles on the Table. Everett submitted an incredible report (first to the U.S. Supreme Court, then to the U.S. Army), which read like a record of Nazi atrocities. He charged that, to extort confessions, U.S. prosecution teams "had kept the German defendants in dark, solitary confinement at near starvation rations up to six months; had applied various forms of torture, including the driving of burning matches under the prisoners' fingernails; had administered beatings which resulted in broken jaws and arms and permanently injured testicles...
...cops, hard-pressed Romans revived the prewar custom of handing out gifts to the police on Feast of the Epiphany-Jan. 6, the day on which Italian children get their Christmas presents. (The gifts are brought by Befana, a green-shawled lady who travels on a broomstick and wears dark spectacles to protect her eyes when she dives down chimneys.) Last week, Roman drivers halted their cars to hand over their presents to "off-duty" policemen who were especially stationed for this purpose next to the regular ones...
Czerniawsky had a pale, dark-haired mistress named Renee Borni. Perhaps Mathilde was jealous. In any case, when the Gestapo pounced on the three of them in a frowsy little Montmartre hotel, Mathilde was more like a purring cat than a fighting tigress. Soon she was having an affair with a Gestapo corporal named Hugo Bleicher...
...that same day, in the same hospital, one Mrs. Theodosia Shatis, the wife of a Cyprus shepherd, also gave birth to a boy. He weighed only 6 Ibs. 1 oz. and he seemed to resemble his dark parents...
After three days, Mother Shatis appeared satisfied with the fair, blue-eyed child she had been given as her own. She took Blue Eyes back with her to the mud-brick village where she lived with her husband. Panayiota stayed behind with the dark boy who, she was convinced, was not hers...