Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan did tone down his rhetoric. He did not even use the words Republican and Democrat, and he asserted that "there's plenty of blame to go around" for economic distress. He sought to project an image of sober concern, stating that " the dark cloud of unemployment hangs over the lives of 11 million of our friends, neighbors and family...
...rent: two abandoned subway tunnels that stretch for nearly two miles some 50 feet beneath the streets of Manhattan. They are dark, dank and almost inaccessible. Present occupants are a few rats. If interested, contact New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority...
There were six of us sitting in the darkened living room, watching in despair as the flames flickered and flared up the coast. The smoking rails of the coral and the huge crossbeams of the Forests' house across the streets still glowed faintly through the dark, but the engines had long since abandoned the hopeless effort and gone clanging off to some other front where they were more desperately needed. The fire had disappeared over the hill, leaving only the charred grasses, and the stooped figures, silently picking their way through the smoldering ashes...
...raging since noon of the previous day. Suddenly, an account of another blaze came on. The words "Kanan Dume"--a road near us--cut through my reverie. Startled, I waited for elaboration and when none came glanced instinctively up the coast for the telltale black smudge on the horizon, Dark clouds billowed from Mandeville Canyon five miles away, but beyond that, the sky was only a crystal blue...
...willing to play judge and executioner. Adultery is punished by eight months of bread and water; indiscreet lovemaking demands instant and bloody death. In this remorseless landscape, where the subtlest smile on a stolid face can seem an act of anarchy, each prisoner must find fulfillment by pursuing his dark destiny...