Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only two of the witnesses admitted that they knew dark-haired Elizabeth Bentley, the self-confessed Communist spy. (But none admitted knowing that she was a spy.) Many of the people named by Miss Bentley-either as co-spies or as purveyors of confidential Government information-admitted that they knew each other. Three also said that they had been visitors at a small, red brick house in suburban Chevy Chase...
Flags & Firsts. One evening after dark, a Californian (assisted by an outlander from the state of Washington) shinnied over the fence into damp and deserted Wembley Stadium. The only light they could see was the Olympic flame flickering in its great urn. They slipped past the guards, climbed up onto the roof and hauled down the large five-ringed Olympic flag, which waved above the royal box. Into a bag it went. Following it went some smaller flags-the British, Dutch, Panamanian and Italian. Then they escaped...
Just outside Acapulco, on the road to Mexico City, is a little garden restaurant called El Parque Cachú. Its proprietor, a grey little man known to his neighbors as el gringo, hid his Nordic blue eyes behind dark glasses as he served beer and tacos in the shade of his cashew trees...
Brother Crawford was glad he didn't have to make a speech, for it would have been a deception. Brother Crawford was a man with a dark secret. In four weeks and 4,000 miles of travel through the South, nobody guessed that he was really Ray Sprigle, free, white and 61, and the shrewdest reporter on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's staff...
Foot Race in the Dark. Like someone heaving, lead-footed, through a nightmare, Mathias rounded the dark track. Somehow on the homestretch he managed a little spring, and finished in 5:11. It was pitifully slow time, but enough to clinch his victory...