Word: darken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corps got some comfort from the biggest "blackout" yet staged by the U.S. Army. In part of the defense sector, 66 towns were darkened to find out: whether voluntary cooperation by citizens could achieve a blackout efficient enough to baffle night bombers. Answer: No. Inability to darken scattered rural homes and keep cars off highways* in so large an area defeated the blackout. Bombers found their way with ease, theoretically wrecked Fort Bragg...
...related in a book, To Lhasa in Disguise. With a few Tibetan servants, he climbed through the wild, snowy passes of the Himalayas. There, in the bitter cold, he stood naked while a companion covered his body with brown stain, squirted lemon juice into his blue eyes to darken them. Thus disguised as a coolie, he arrived in the Forbidden City without being detected, but disclosed himself to the civilian officials. A fanatical mob led by Buddhist monks stoned his house. Bill McGovern slipped out through a back door and joined the mob in throwing stones. The civil government took...
...lungs are two irregular conical shaped organs occupying the chest. At birth and for three weeks thereafter they are white. Gradually they darken to yellowish grey or reddish grey in the adult. People who live in smoky cities like St. Louis (TIME, Feb. 22) have their lungs marbled with black and blue lines from particles of soot. Coal miners' lungs are black, copper miners' are blue...
...Please darken the leggin's in front of Pheidippides' stomach. From a distance this gives him the appearance of potgut. Don't you think him a shade pink for a warrior? And WHAT is that black face behind Miltiades? It is only because we are very enthusiastic that we would dare offer a suggestion. We see it from a distance as it will mostly be seen. It will be a fine mural. PLEASE get on P's potgut though...
...wended their way to Winthrop House, whose windows shone warm and cozy. By midnight the windows had begun to darken and the girls began to realize that there was little hope. They were found by the University police at 2 o'clock wrapped in sheets. Where the sheets came from was not disclosed...