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Word: darkeness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time in history. Five raincoated, dark-suited, somber Soviet journalists showed up at the northwest gate of the White House. They were run through the magnetometer, their briefcases searched, waved on down the drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Offering Reagan His Say | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...left over from Hurricane Gloria. The windows were open, there was a full moon and we were feeling deeply relaxed," said Audris S. Wong '89 a resident of Weld North. "My eyes were transfixed at the space between my two roommates, when I saw an old woman with a dark cloak and grayish hair...

Author: By Mark R. Hoffenberg, | Title: 'I Saw a Ghost in My Common Room' | 11/9/1985 | See Source »

Business, while booming, is erratic. Many customers come in just to browse the collection of masks, from glow-in-the-dark skeletons to celebrity wrestlers to Richard Nixon. "You wouldn't believe how many people come in here, try on 97 different masks, and buy one $1.79 set of vampire teeth," Freed said...

Author: By Adam Schwartz, | Title: Best Day of the Year For Porter Square Store | 11/1/1985 | See Source »

Wilkinson stands too much in awe of Bunting and can't quite capture the presence and spontaneity he exuded on national TV. Wilkinson goes all the way to Scotland Neck to write, "Standing alone and calling them in the dark, he looked like a figure out of history...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Melts in the Hand, Not in the Mouth | 10/31/1985 | See Source »

...world's AIDS victims. Headlines in Europe have proclaimed the disease's spread with dire warnings of a new plague. This has led Professor Carlo de Bac, secretary of the Italian League to Combat Virus Diseases, to complain that journalists are creating "unjustified alarm and panic worthy of the Dark Ages." But there has been at least one positive result of the increased, if distorted, public awareness of the malady: it has galvanized many foreign governments into action, and they are for the first time distributing information on the dangers of the disease. Moreover, most Western countries have in recent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Health a Scourge Spreads Panic | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

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