Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grey-suited Earl Warren, his wife Nina and their three daughters arrived. Tom Dewey pointed to chairs, said: "Earl, sit there . . . Nina, sit there . . . Frances, sit there." As he sat down himself, he told photographers: "I hope I never look this awful again. I have dark circles under my eyes, and it is the first time in my life I have had them...
Moving the heavy equipment to the right places in a hurry was the biggest problem. The next biggest was whiskers. Every dark-bearded man who appeared before the camera without makeup, no matter how clean-shaven, looked hirsute. After the first few telecasts of lined, lipless ladies and black-bristled men, there was a rush for makeup. Governor Dewey did an expert job dabbing the finishing touches on his own pancake base for interviews. In his acceptance speech, without makeup, he looked a little like a baby-faced Lincoln. A Charles of the Ritz cosmetician touched up the wives...
Miss West, her face hidden behind dark glasses to protect herself from the glare, stood on a table to watch the Dewey demonstration. Her convention reports read a little like an eyewitness account by a visitor from Mars who had read a guidebook before coming. Pink-faced, bushy-browed Westbrook Pegler, stoutly filling a grey suit, chatted amiably with his dandiacal little ex-boss, publisher Roy Howard, who wore his familiar matching shirt, bow tie and breast-pocket handkerchief. Cartoonist David Low, looking just like his self-caricatures, but larger, made quick reminders of the shape of a jowl...
...grimmest Russian pressure is not directly on the Allies, but on Berlin's people. One night this week, slim, dark Fritz Müller, 27, left Berlin for good. From scrap & rubble, he had built up a little clothing shop. Business was a hopeless tangle-he couldn't get thread or needles from the Western sectors, his delivery boys were detained for days at a time by Russian patrols. Last week, because he was "politically unreliable," Fritz's shop was confiscated. Oddly, it was confiscated by the same German official who ten years ago seized his furniture...
...soldiers) threw open their precious watertight doors to make more room, served simultaneously as carriers, leaders, patrollers, defenders against aircraft-and hazards to smaller craft. Turning and twisting at high speed to avoid bombs, their roaring wash flooded or capsized scores of loaded dinghies, launches, yachts. Collision in the dark, too, "was a great worry," reported Mr. Lowe, dour skipper of the tug Simla...