Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...humid day and overcast," recalled Yakub Ali, a 40-year-old farmer on the tiny Bangladeshi island of Urirchar. "First came the dark and the menacing clouds. Soon the wind started whistling ominously. Then the heavy rains began to fall." At first Yakub thought with relief that the torrents might disperse the stifling heat, which can exceed 100 degrees F at this time of year. But the downpour quickly gained greater and still greater force. As the alarmed farmer walked out of his hut, he came upon his neighbors gathering in the night. There was frightened talk that Danger Signal...
...minutes later, still hundreds of yards from the Forestry building, Yakub felt himself lifted by a towering wave. Frantically he looked around for his family, but all was lost in the darkness, behind blinding sheets of rain. "Everything was dark -- rain, rain. I was floating for several hours," he recalled of the hours he passed at sea before sailors from a naval vessel pulled him to safety. "I am a good swimmer, but it was terrible. I really do not know how I survived. And where," he asked, tears in his eyes, "where are my near and dear ones...
...consider history's first monotheist, it unfolds in gradual waves to reveal two particularly striking moments: a ravishing trio for Akhnaten (a countertenor), his mother and his wife in the first act; and Akhnaten's glorious hymn to the sun disk in Act II. The prevailing mood, though, is dark and brooding, emphasized by Glass's use of an orchestra without violins. Rich in detail and sharp in characterization, Akhnaten...
They have just started drinking their coffee, and the driver with the Roadway cap calls over the waitress, telling her there is salt in the sugar he put in his coffee. She is pale, thin, young, has dark circles under her eyes. The truckers have been teasing her, and she doesn't trust them. She dabs a bit of sugar from the canister on a finger and tastes it. Salt. She samples sugar from the other canisters. They have salt too, and she gathers them up to replace them. Someone is hazing her, breaking her into...
Flossie comes back and turns to the new customer in mirror shades at this dark hour, a young trucker with cowboy boots and hat. "John-boy. Where you been? Haven't seen you in weeks. Looks like you need a nice omelet. Cook just made some of those biscuits you like...