Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Those who owned trucks loaded them high with blankets, heirloom carpets, anything they could salvage from their bomb-shattered homes; others piled precious possessions on top of mules and camels or carried what they could: a lantern, a teapot, a generations-old copy of the Koran. While it was dark, they traveled fast along the rough mountain roads; during the day, when planes or helicopters reappeared in the skies, the refugees took shelter amid the rocks and trees...
...space to spare" in Dallas. Dallas did not seem as thoughtful as Hank, but it appeared to live somewhere between the church and the bank. Saturday afternoon I walked among the gray and silver office buildings downtown, each showing off another in the tall sheets of reflecting glass, like dark vertical lakes. Buildings going up and up. One, as yet unfinished, had windows only part of the way up the structure, like a woman pulling on a stocking. Sex was somewhere in this mix. The air was filled with heat, jackhammers, and church bells playing How Great Thou...
Most people know the urge to chuck it all. Almost two years ago, William Catterson acted on that dark impulse. He worked nights as an assistant manager of a fast-food restaurant; his wife worked days as a teacher, leaving Catterson at home in Lodi, N.J., to take care of their two small children. The marriage became strained. One night, after calling to say he would be home late from work, Catterson took a bus to Atlantic City, and then headed for Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he lived and worked under an assumed name...
...Budapest Grand Prix had been billed as a showdown between East and West, since a number of Americans and other non-Communist athletes were scheduled to appear. In the end, all the best-known Westerners except U.S. Supersprinter Carl Lewis decided to withdraw. Lewis, moody behind dark glasses, made little headway with the international press corps, but he had no trouble winning the 100 meters with a time of 10.05, .06 slower than his Olympic mark. Eight other winners at Budapest, all of them from boycotting countries, posted records better than those of Los Angeles...
...Masses.. . This letter [and one other] are virtually the only references to the Soviet purges in Josie's letters.. . Josie was at Yaddo during the announcement of the Nazi-Soviet pact. A group photo taken the day before the invasion of Poland shows her face dark with worry. Why didn't she 'break' publicly with the Communist Party when she was so 'disillusioned' with it privately? 'If you burn your immediate past there is nothing left but ashes which are all very well for those heads that like nothing better than...