Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always led us with a firm hand through many dark valleys...
...curious collection of debris: leather-bound ledgers recording 700 years of the Abbey's life; stuffed birds and animals from its zoological collection; the molten pipes of its great 17th Century organ, contorted into weird sausage shapes; rusting German machine guns with ammunition belts still attached. On the dark walls are crude sketches of female figures traced by homesick German soldiers, and a Rhenish landscape with the caption Oh, du wun-derschöner Deutscher Rhein (Oh, you beautiful German Rhine...
Along the silt-yellow Rio Magdalena the talk was of hard times. "There's not enough water, not even for alligators if there were any," said one dark-skinned boga de agua dulce (freshwater sailor) squatting idly on a pier. "They hunted alligators to death," remarked another, "and now the ghosts are cursing this river...
...long ago, the woman would never have darkened the library's doors- nor would many of her fellow citizens. For years, the city's public-library system was a collection of dark buildings filled with shabby books and headed by inept political appointees. Reform groups demanded that something be done. The first trained librarian they picked died in office after only a few months. The second time they were luckier: they got a bookish, pipe-smoking Tennessean named John Hall Jacobs...
...been used to treat him. They quoted the priest who blessed the Babe ("He died a beautiful death"). They quoted or put quotes into the mouths of moppets who hung around the hospital ("Urchins from nearby brownstone houses and cold-water flats," sniffled the Daily Mirror, "huddled in the dark outside . . . fighting off tears when the news came"). For days, photographers had been carefully posing the children, chin-in-hand and with bat-&-ball props, to illustrate "The Vigil...