Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Were things suddenly as black as they seemed to be? New York Timesman James Reston gave an answer that summed up the feelings of many a U.S. citizen. "We have been walking in darkness, if not in danger for a long time," he wrote. "The Communist triumph in Prague and the sudden death of Jan Masaryk were merely flashes of light that showed us how dark were the skies over central and eastern Europe...
...Last, Sanity. It was no accident that Beria's four predecessors were, to say the least, neurotics. But Beria seems to be a sane, well-balanced man. In that fact lies the deepening horror of Russia. For Beria, without shrieks or dark yearnings, plods along, like the efficient bureaucrat he is, in the bloody footsteps of Dzerzhinsky. Some time ago a former Communist explained: "The task of the Soviet government is to create a new man with a new 'morale,' according to which it will be as easy to kill on the party's orders...
Avon, wrote Mrs. Riddle firmly, "was founded for the sons of the gentry. ... It is difficult, if not impossible, for Avon to develop [honor and culture] in a boy, if he has not been trained in early years." She expected the well-born youngsters to wear black ties and dark jackets by night, Brooks Brothers grey flannels by day, play no interscholastic sport except polo, learn fly-casting and the manly art of self-defense...
Pierpont was willing to comply with the minor provisions of Avon's code, such as fly-casting and a school uniform (now modified, at night, to a dark jacket), so long as he didn't have to be too literal about the major ones. Particularly, he doesn't believe, as Mrs. Riddle did, that there is one class privileged to produce gentlemen. He is as anxious to turn out gentlemen as she was, but believes that they can be made, not necessarily prenatally. Without Mrs. Riddle to make up its $25,000 a year losses, Avon will...
...congregations have been trained at Hebrew Union College, which Dr. Wise started in Cincinnati in 1875. Last week, on the Tudor Gothic campus of Hebrew Union, 1,000 leaders of Reform Judaism met to celebrate the inauguration of the college's fourth president, Rabbi Nelson Glueck, 47. Handsome, dark-eyed Nelson Glueck (rhymes with click) became a rabbi at 23, but he is better known as one of the world's foremost archeologists. He spent ten of the last 15 years in Palestine, where he discovered and mapped 1,000 biblical cities in the Trans-Jordan area...