Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last evenings, the Beaver had gone into a cafe on the champs. Elysees--the Rond-Point--and I was waiting outside for her seduced by that new, added discretion which after dark gives the cafes the clandestine look of brothels; seduced by a sky that was taking an age to fade away and a few precious stones attached to the gas lamps which shone without illuminating-by a whole night blue and filled with whisperings, which brought summer to mind. And suddenly I was overcome by a kind of toy at the thought that I alive was there in that...
...alienate his Jewish constituency and his moral constituency to win the good favor of the German government. He will judge the wisdom of his choice by the size of the public outery. So far that outcry has not been indignant enough. One can only fear for the moral darkness that has fallen over this country, and listed to the whispered accusations of anti-Semitism in the dark...
...those exciting early days of the U.S. space program? Dieter Kolff and his fellow scientists leading America's effort to catch up with the Soviets and put a man into orbit. Astronaut John Pope making his spectacular walk in space. And, of course, that historic Apollo landing on the dark side of the moon and its terrifying brush with disaster...
Cartoonist Garry Trudeau, in his Doonesbury strip, dubbed Garn "Barfin' Jake." But the 52-year-old Senator held up well in preparations for the mission, which included being sealed in a dark bag to test his resistance to claustrophobia. During a spin in a simulator known as the "vomit comet," which is designed to induce motion sickness, Garn kept his food down...
They had done a lot, too. Whalen said that while trying to get a badly stabbed man into an ambulance, he had accidentally stuck his hand into the victim's intestines. Walking through the dark with nothing but flashlights and instinct, the two cops had stalked a suspect who was toting a submachine...