Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Susan Cheever write Home Before Dark, a "biographical memoir" of her father -- published a mere two years after his death, and revealing his hidden triad of dark sins: alcoholism, marital strife, and homosexuality...
Within seven hours, they had rounded up 7,000 men and led them, handcuffed or with hands behind their heads, to dark green military buses that took them to a nearby soccer stadium for interrogation. The scene was an eerie reminder of the mass arrests that occurred in the wake of the coup that brought General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, 68, to power in 1973, which has been depicted in the 1982 film Missing. Although the majority of those rounded up last week were later released, at least 227 remained in detention along with 312 others banished for 90 days...
After 21 days of battling to preserve a fragile life, Dr. Leonard Bailey was visibly spent. His voice trembled and broke with emotion last Friday as he faced the press at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California to provide the epitaph for the dark-haired infant known as Baby Fae. "Today we grieve the loss of this patient's life," said the 41-year-old heart surgeon. That life, he insisted, had not been in vain. "Infants with heart disease yet to be born will some day soon have the opportunity to live, thanks to the courage of this...
Reading period always seems short enough every semester, but this January only 11 dark winter days have been allotted for catching up on fall term work, three fewer than usual...
...first English versions of his works, insisted upon new ones as soon as he emigrated to the U.S. Other demanding authors, who possess a greater command of foreign tongues, have decided that self-translation is best. Nabokov, whose early work was written in Russian, rendered Laughter in the Dark into English. He also turned Lolita, which was written in English, into Russian. Samuel Beckett, an Irishman who writes mostly in French, has translated his plays, Waiting for Godot, Endgame and others, into his native English...