Word: darkeners
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...best they live a twilight existence . . . objects of pity or derision, occupying no satisfying place in society. Their lives darken those of their families and place a heavy financial burden upon them which might better be directed towards rearing normal children...
...with out twice their number of fighters. The Luftwaffe, once able to bomb Russia's remote bases, industrial centers, airfields at will, now has difficulty protecting its hard-pressed armies. In the path of the Wehrmacht's retreat across the Ukraine, Moscow said last week, Red aircraft "darken the skies from dawn to dusk, discharging thousands of tons of explosives which pulverize everything beneath them...
First Moves. How much longer would it be before the masters of Germany caught the contagion? Before they themselves believed the game was up? Doubtless they half believed it now, were groping for a way to silence the music, to halt the players, to darken the house, to pay off the audience, to rewrite Germany's destiny...
When the doctors have a patient with a gangrenous foot or strangulated hernia (protruding loop of gut), they wheel him into an operating room, inject fluorescein, a reddish dye, into the vein of his arm. Then they darken the room, shine an ultraviolet lamp on the gangrenous area. The dye should make a circuit of the patient's blood stream in 20 seconds. If the gut or foot is still alive and receiving fresh blood, it will glow yellow green. Then it is safe to tuck the gut back in place, or stimulate circulation...
Because last night's dimout failed even to approach the goal set by the military authorities, the regulations may extend 15 miles inland. Cambridge officials were planning to paint over the streetlights so as to darken them until suitable shields could be constructed to prevent any light from glowing upward, but the dissatisfaction of the Army and Navy over the effect measures taken thus far have had may necessitate even more drastic action here...