Word: darken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like a Fire. Last week, only a few weeks after the pound underwent one of its greatest tests of the century, Britain's cloud seemed to darken perceptibly. Talk swept London's City-and the Continent-about the further lack of trust in Labor, about the possibility of the pound's devaluation, and about a deterioration in the balance of trade. Though not all-perhaps not much-of the gossip was solidly based on fact, it burned as persistently and as contagiously as a fire in a peat...
Subjects who get a lift from the drug describe all colors as bright and gay-a traffic light may become an object of surpassing beauty. If the subject be comes depressed, the colors darken or bleach out. Highly colored geometric tapestries flow past the closed eyes...
...Coop's architect, Clifford H. Towne told the Council that "we feel that we have come up with a dignified building." He said that shadow studies made by the Coop showed that the bridge would not unduly darken Palmer...
Getting ready for the try, Olivier boomed and bellowed at the rehearsal hall's rafters until he had amplified his "rib reserve." He soaked himself in potassium permanganate, but that failed to darken him sufficiently, so he settled in the end for coal-black grease paint. He tightened the spring in his stride, explaining, "Othello should walk like a soft black panther." He practiced the curiously accented, oddly stressed speech that evoked the way some Jamaicans and Africans gush English, managing thereby to convey the way the Moor spoke Italian...
...striped shirt, and and indescribable, Golux-like hat, Miss Lillie sang such numbers as "I heard My Goldfish Yedeling" and did the twist with Laurence H. Scott, teaching fellow in History and Literature. She also recalled that she once told a waiter who spilled coffee on her dress, "Never darken my Dior again...