Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was the high purpose of a six-nation agreement announced last week for the control of Germany's Ruhr-the dark, smoke-grimed valley that cradles the industrial heart of Europe. The text of the agreement was simultaneously given out in the capitals of the U.S. and the five Western Union nations-Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg...
Libyans for world citizenship. A fair man with a toothbrush mustache and an American accent was saying: "I think I was born in Holland-I think so, mind you." Another young man, very dark and ill-shaven, introduced himself to me crisply: "I am the French press attache of this movement. I was appointed only yesterday, so there is little I can tell you about Garry Davis. However, I can tell you a lot about the Trotskyists, with whom I used to have numerous affiliations...
...Year's Eve in Tel Aviv wound up with a bang. As celebrants of the foreign colony danced the New Year in at seaside hotels, two Egyptian corvettes, which had slipped up the coast in the dark, opened fire on the city. Israeli shore batteries fired back. A quarter of an hour later, as Israeli planes roared out to attack, the corvettes slunk off to the south...
...length of shapely leg. From time to time as the prosecutor read the indictment, her long, blood-red fingernails fondled a corsage of tea roses at her shoulder as she cast a slow smile at her dapper defender, Major Luis Albarracin. Only flaw in her appearance was the dark line at the roots of her blonde hair. She gets special treatment at Madrid's women's prison, but her privileges do not include having a-hairdresser visit...
Strike in the Dark. Niebuhr, says Barth, reminds him of a player in "a curious game called 'Brother, where art thou?' . . . who with eyes blindfolded [strikes] out wildly into the dark in a direction in which the other . . . is in all probability not to be found . . . Niebuhr's contribution is in my view a shattering example of a blow in the dark, such as I have described. The only fundamental answer I can give him is that I do not find myself where . . . I appear to him to be, and where he had delivered such lusty blows...