Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Comforts of Home. Near Askov, Minn., a search party finally found the hunter who had packed his gear in the dark, gone into the wilds with his wife's compact instead of his compass...
...Trumans in the white & gold East Room was the dean of Washington's diplomatic corps, Brazil's Ambassador Carlos Martins, accompanied by his sculptress wife, Maria, and their handsome, 19-year-old daughter Nora. Portly Ambassador Martins bore up bravely in tight-fitting full-dress uniform of dark green, covered with gold-leaf embroidery, sword and medals. Said he: "One more pound and I have to get a new uniform...
...concentrator something more worthwhile than the fact-filled chemistry course, and the G.E. department has a staff of brilliant teachers. The infant program has so far been successful, and should be more so if too much is not demanded of it too soon. General Education itself is still a dark question--the Committee has not yet opened full throttle, and even when it does, obtaining a well-rounded knowledge will still depend largely on the individual's own wisdom and personal initiative...
...submit. This was often terrible to hear, for the news in the papers confirmed it. He was not only alarming, he was ugly; he opened a vista into a mean life. . . . He went further than that smug mockery of our plight. He sinned that sin which is the dark travesty of legitimate hatred . . . just as incest is the dark travesty of legitimate love...
Plenty of other doors flew open. Rebecca, despite a somewhat unconstructed chin, had a beauty of face which was heightened by a beauty of the mind when her dark brown eyes grew intense with the animation of ideas. Talk poured from her in a brilliant jet, and had upon her listeners the effect of an electric impulse. She has been talking ever since, for her writing is, in fact, a burst of brilliant conversation...