Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...average age is 20. One night Keith Lewis, 19, and three companions were savoring field-ration brownies in their bunker when a shot rang out near by. They leaped to their feet, then started giggling, realizing they had nowhere to run. "It's weird in the dark," says Lewis. "We get to laughing a lot." The men are, however, aging quickly. Captain Paul Roy, the company commander, gathered his troops a few days ago in a memorial service for two of the Marines killed in action. He read eulogies to them in the clear accent of the Maine woods...
...famous Zaoyuan, or Date Garden, to which the leaders moved in 1942. By then, they had broken completely with Chiang. There, on the dominant slope, are the caves of the same three men. Mao's boasted no fewer than five rooms; he slept now in a handsome dark wood sleigh bed, on a hardwood board with only a thin pad on top. Chu Teh had a fine cave suite to his left, Chou En-lai to his right...
...knew immediately who was doing the laughing. The occasional sardonic chuckles in the dark were female, not male, and they came from the women who, like me, had already been in Paris for at least a day--enough time to try stopping on the street to state at a monument. They knew what Miss Copenhagen's day would really have been like. It would be a day requiring endless ingenuity, especially in dodging. Being tall, slim, and blonde, she would probably get the full treatment starting about 10 a.m. First the friendly calls from the men she passed: "Bonjour, madame...
Sorensen predicted that the added importance of television coverage would probably help Hart's chances of heating the Democratic frontrunners. He explained that TV has generally been a boon to dark horse candidates citing McGovern's upset of then Sen Edmand Muskie (D-Mc) in the 1972 primaries and Jimmy Carter's emergence from obscurity...
...week or two, usually typing a chapter a day at a rate of 92 words a minute, has yielded an astonishing output of approximately 420 volumes during half a century. Some 200 of these were early potboilers under a variety of pseudonyms; the rest are mostly spare, dark psychological thrillers, 84 of them chronicling the cases of that indelible fictional detective, Inspector Maigret...