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Word: darkeness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...left to Adolf Hitler to embody the idea of war as individual psychosis, and to the Bomb to give the world its presiding terror: the vision of one maniac pressing the obliterating button. Hitler's extravagant madness broke over Europe in a dark wave. He began with Poland at the end of the summer of 1939. As usually happens with history in the process of occurring, it was sometimes difficult for the world to weigh Hitler, to judge him, to predict him, to know his ambition or his lunacy. He was a perfect phenomenon of the age of Einstein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War and Peace: A Full Symphony of History's Possibilities | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...People only think of rape someone grabbing you on the street or in a dark alley," says Nadja Gould, a clinical social worker at Harvard's University Health Services (UHS). The crime, she says, is considerably broader...

Author: By Melinna I. Weissberg, | Title: Harvard Seeks Wider Perceptions of Rape | 10/4/1983 | See Source »

Bisnow, now a second-year student at Harvard Law School, wrote Diary of a Dark Horse to give a first-hand account of Anderson's Republican nomination bid, and letter his independent candidacy. Upon reading it, one suspects he did so to make sure that the version that tells what really happened is Mark Bisnow's, and no one else...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: On the Trail | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

ANDERSON'S CANDIDACY is now little more than a foot-note to the 1980 election, a reminder that he might have won out over Reagan. His dark-horse campaign probably only has significance for those who trace the history of presidential campaigns closely...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: On the Trail | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

...implies that there's a lot of packaging to campaigning, which is nothing new, but with a dark horse candidate who doesn't have a large budget, it's possible to get a clearer picture of who is what. Still, voters not close to campaigns can be easily manipulated...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: On the Trail | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

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