Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dark. The tidings swiftly got to Pennsylvania's Governor Jim Duff, who hopes to put most of his state's 73 delegates in the driver's seat of a Vandenberg bandwagon at Philadelphia next month (TIME, May 10). The Senator's strategists hoped that his friends around the country would not start making a big noise about his candidacy. They wanted him to keep his standing as a dark horse, but they also wanted his friends to be no longer in the dark about his willingness to run. They could spread the word quietly to state...
...constructing and tearing down the commencement platforms would, spread over a period of years, surely be enough to hollow out a good bit of the Yard. Of course, once the lot is constructed, the expense of hiring watchmen might be prohibitive. Such an area would be shot full of dark corners, and infinitely more dangerous to undergraduate morals than a co-educational library. But if Boston, the citadel of careful manners, can risk it, the College should be able to take a few digs in the interest of its motorized clientele...
...grandstand, he studies the horse's weight, his past performances, the track conditions, the jockey's record. Then he tries to weigh a few imponderables: e.g., how badly do the owner and the jockey want to win this race? The wise-guy fan isn't particularly horrified by the dark shenanigans he suspects. He only wishes he were in on them...
...industry still had the biggest backlog in history, and cars were as hard to get as ever. Automakers had hoped to cut the demand down by upwards of 5,000,000 new cars and trucks this year. But last week the future looked dark enough to cause estimates to be shaved to 4,500,000 for the year...
Less than 100 hours after it heard their arguments, CAB gave its answer: no. New hearings, said the Board, would "cast a dark shadow across the certificate already lawfully issued and in full force and effect." Moreover, it was reasonable that a line flying a new route should get a bigger subsidy; both Pan Am and Panagra had so benefited when they started...