Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...them new identities, enabling the soldiers to go home, but not resume their old lives, if they would spy for the West. The offers went to devoted family men who would not imperil their kin. This poignant tale of one such impersonation provides a ground-level view of four dark decades, from the Stalinist '30s to the imperceptibly detentist...
President Reagan so far has extolled the benefits of cheap oil and avoided talking about the dark side. But last week the Administration showed the first signs of concern about the disruption of domestic oil production. Speaking to reporters on Monday, Energy Secretary John Herrington laid down a warning to Saudi Arabia, the country that helped start the current price war by drastically boosting its output. The kingdom's strategy has "created severe problems for the American petroleum industry," Herrington said, and could have "political implications" for the Saudis if they continue...
Greek investigators speculated that the explosion on the plane may have been caused by a Czechoslovak-made plastic explosive called Semtex, which East bloc countries export in large quantities to Lebanon. Dark orange in color and claylike in consistency, Semtex can be detected by trained dogs but apparently not by existing airport equipment. Authorities believed that the bomb, which may have been no larger than two bars of soap, could have had a plastic timer that would not have set off the metal-detecting machines at the Cairo airport...
...strangler, still at large, was described by the woman as a stocky man about 25-40 years in age, 5'7" in height, wearing brown pants, a red jacket, and a dark colored ski hat. Security has been tightened throughout the college, Roth said...
...loosely arranged in chapters dealing with a theme or a person; one on his childhood, one on Edith Sitwell, one on Tony Guthrie, etc. Chronology is left to necessity, so an instant after Guinness meets Ernest Milton he is attending his funeral. Some things are left completely in the dark; after 225 pages of reminiscence we still don't know how he met his wife, or what he even sees...