Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...footsteps of researchers died down, and a guard with a megaphone could be heard methodically pacing the corridors, intoning at intervals. "The library is closing in 10 minutes...the library is closing in 10 minutes." Jack started panicking--he'd counted on his dead-end row of carrels being dark, but a graduate student was still engrossed in work four carrels away, and there was an overhead light that stayed obstinately on with no switch in sight. Time moved at a crawl, especially since he had incautiously put his head down directly on top of his watchband...
...work on the second half of his test in Memorial Hall, just as the proctor called out that time was up. The proctor proceeded to walk around the room, collecting all the blue books, but somehow he overlooked this particular student, who continued to scribble away frantically in a dark book corner of the hall...
...books in order in a big pile at the front of the room, cross checked them with the attendance list for the exam, and performed all the various other administrative duties that proctors must perform at the end of an exam Meanwhile, the lone student scrawled away in his dark corner...
Almost as soon as Alvarez fired on Tuesday night, word of the shooting raced through the dark streets of Overtown...
Team members and Coach Kathy Delaney Smith say Leithauser missed practices scheduled over the recess. "I hadn't expected Lisa back on the team after she missed practices and broke the rules. But I'm really in the dark about why she didn't practice...