Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Where is my home? Where is my home?" they sang. (The watching crowd bowed their heads; many wept.) "Fair Bohemia is my home! Fair Bohemia is my home!" (The police stood ramrod still; one reporter noticed several of the policemen weeping too.) "Thunders crashing wild, over Tatras' dark main...
...Duchess of Valencia, who speaks her monarchist mind in public, was out about $45,000. That was the latest fine levied against her by the Franco cabinet. The duchess, a dark-eyed beauty who was once fined for making monarchist noises in a tea shop, was charged this time with inciting a college-boy rebellion...
...have a horror of Ladies Aid," says Niebuhr. But he waded into the social problems of his parish and the city, presiding at labor forums, lecturing at Midwestern colleges. Sometimes he unburdened himself of remarks like: ''The lowliest peasant of the Dark Ages had more opportunity for self-expression than the highest-paid employee at the Ford factory." When, in 1928, Niebuhr became an associate professor at Union Theological Seminary, Detroit's automotive tycoons breathed a sigh of relief...
Finally, at 9:45, the twins flashed the ground nine times to announce that they were going to land. Said Herman, "It wasn't very healthy up there in the dark in something that didn't have a motor in it." The brothers put their plane into a dive. At 10:05 - twelve hours and 52 minutes after the take-off - they glided to a landing. They had topped the American duration record by nearly three hours...
...present, for the purposes of keeping tins brief, let me state just these points: 1) Monnett B. Davis, American Consul at Shanghai, fears the situation to be so dark that there exists in China a fuse leading to a huge bomb, and that this fuse is burning rapidly, and only very sensational action can cut it and prevent the bomb from blowing up in our faces; 2) Mr. Tsuyee Pel; Governor of the Central Bank (China's official currency), felt the situation so dark a year ago that he resigned his post to devote his time to planning...