Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dark Berlin, the lights blazed bright and late at a white sandstone building at 42 Schlüterstrasse. From the second-floor balcony windows, the sound of scores of stamping feet and the melody of a rousing polka carried into the silent street. Beyond the curtained windows, in one of eleven rooms brilliant under crystal chandeliers, the hundreds of Berlin's international set were being greeted by a short, thin man in uniform. His perfectly bald head with a wiggly scar on one side distracted their gaze from his soft brown eyes. He was Major General Jacob Prawin, chief...
...been here two months but I really do like it . . . We certainly don't get food like this at home." To this the young Russian nods understandingly and vigorously and says simply: "Me too." All seems to be going splendidly for a pleasant three-power chat till a dark, curly-haired Soviet major taps the lieutenant on the shoulder and murmurs something briefly. The chat ends abruptly, as the lieutenant looks back regretfully at his unfinished plate. The American shrugs...
...region just beyond Changchun's perimeter. There, between Nationalist and Communist lines, is one of the no man's lands known as "san-pu-kuan" (three-don't-care), signifying territory where neither Nationalist, Communist nor local authority bothers to exercise control. This is a dark and bloody ground for bandits, usually army deserters, who prey on the passing crowd. They have guns, horses and passwords...
John Barrymore Jr., 16, continued on his way to Los Angeles after a slight delay at La Guardia Airport. Stepfather Dr. John Vruwink, in the dark himself, had asked police to find out whither John was bound. Police picked him out by the profile...
...night are a consequence of a trifle of shadow that lies back of the earth, the sun banging through its great system, only here and there blocked by a tiny opaque ball that casts its tiny shadow. Because of that shadow-all the night music, the night poetry, the dark thoughts, the neon signs, the silent seductions, the bats, the thieveries, the large frights, the small frights, the mere worries, the walking of floors careful that no board shall squeak, and these canaries and finches and parakeets getting in their ten hours of sleep...