Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening after dark, follow a Berlin policeman on his route. For some time nothing out of the ordinary will happen; he waves his stick at a 14-or 15-year-old prostitute who has strayed from her normal beat; or he wakes a P.W. just returned from Russia who is sleeping in a doorway-merely to check his papers. But after a while you will see him stop by a tree on a corner. He will remove a score of little slips of paper pinned there. They read: "Want bread, offer German cigarettes . . ." "Will sell linen tablecloth and curtains...
...department has run itself ragged putting out blazes of unknown origin and unexplained size . . . Crime has increased, naturally. Street lights keep blowing out, and the police signal and radio systems have suffered from jamming. Absenteeism is terrific on the night shifts, because people have taken to staying home after dark. People have taken to staying home in the daylight...
...delegates to the Inter-American conference rode out of scarred Bogotá to the white-walled home of the first Pan American. A chill Andean drizzle fell as they gathered at the Quinta de Bolivar to sip champagne and then duck by turns into the Liberator's dark dining room to sign their treaties and conventions. As each delegate signed, a band in the patio struck up his national anthem. Halfway through, the electricity faltered, and Uruguay signed by the flickering light of a candelabra...
...Awakening. Many an M.P. missed the point in St. Laurent's words, as decorous as his dark suit and starched collar. Standing at Prime Minister King's elbow, he followed his prepared text closely through heavy, horn-rimmed glasses. Occasionally he emphasized a point with a characteristic twist of his head to the right. As he droned on for 87 minutes, M.P.s dozed (one Liberal backbencher had to be awakened by a messenger), or padded out to the lobbies for a smoke...
...Silesia declared that she had been living next door to Adolf Hitler in Liegnitz- on President Roosevelt Strasse. (Skeptical military government officials said that it was Russia's problem.) "He has a triangular mustache now," said the woman, "and he grows sideburns ... He is living with a small, dark woman . . . He has formed a new party-the T.P.Z. I don't know what it stands...