Word: darken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until the winter sky begins to darken, Sissela Bok, the wife of the President of Harvard University, the mother of three children, the daughter of Nobel Prize winner Gunnar Mrydal, is alone in a small garret on the top floor of her Cambridge house. She has more than a room of her own up there; she has a whole land to herself where she can dream and reminisce, a land no foreigner can invade...
...whose cardboard sensitivity and self-indulgent acting make him an ersatz Prince Charming. This love affair is brief and passionate, but unconsummated for the spell is abruptly broken by Clara's cure, which inexorably returns her to obligations at home. As the train hurtling southward nears Milan, the skies darken with thunderclouds, gracelessly symbolizing the descent from ethereal realms of sweetness and light into the quotidian agonies of proletarian life...
...right arm cocked in the air. He has won and the crowd breaks out in cheering he cannot hear. Immediately we head out for the car. It is 5:00. We have neither the time nor the inclination to stop off at the bog. Its smoldering fires still darken the sky. At 2 a.m. I am on the bus from New York City to Boston, travelling down Amsterdam Avenue; a desolate, devastated area pocked with abandoned tenements. At 6:15 a.m. I am back in Cambridge...
...tissues and organs to be rejected. He had received wide publicity for claiming that several animals had been successfully grafted with skin from others that were genetically dissimilar. Summerlin makes no attempt to evade the main allegation against him, and admits that he used a felt-tipped pen to darken the skins of two of the 18 mice that he showed to Institute Director Robert A. Good on March 26. But he denies that this "irrational act," which followed a festive predawn breakfast of crepes and champagne, represented a willful attempt to deceive his colleagues into believing that...
There may be innocent explanations for these and other such questions. But until they are produced, the shadows over Nixon's White House and the presidency itself will continue to darken...