Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...backlog of sell orders has accumulated from Friday, when damage from one of Britain's worst windstorms kept many dealers home. That day's selling gusts from New York make things even worse. Says Christopher Dark, a manager of Salomon Brothers' London branch: "I keep thinking about the little man with the sign saying THE END OF THE WORLD IS NIGH...
...kind of men, and women, who use Boraxo to get their hands clean after a hard day's work. Often they work at physically demanding jobs, and they only appreciate sports that are physically demanding, like arm wrestling. They are big-bellied, long-haul truck drivers in dark blue Levi's and cowboy boots; gym owners in muscle T shirts; car mechanics in soiled khaki uniforms; skinny blond boys who work as bag boys at Publix; and occasionally they are pretty, olive-skinned women, like Teresa Taglione, with dangling gold earrings, blow-dried hair and lots of eyeliner. Teresa...
...usual, there were dark portents. On Sept. 5, 1929, just two days after the New York stock market reached its highest level in history, an eccentric statistician named Roger Babson warned the National Business Conference that "sooner or later a crash is coming, and it may be terrific." The market responded nervously, with the New York Times's 25 leading industrial stocks taking a 10-point dip, then recovering. The Times fretted about the "idea of an utterly disastrous and paralyzing crash...
...whatever parties you think will be fun, dress up as the person you want to become, or curl up alone in a dark room with a good book--anything by Poe, Lovecraft or King is highly reccomended--but whatever you do, stay true to the grand old holiday of Hallowe'en by having as much fun as you possibly...
Also reported under consideration as a dark horse is David H. Souter, a justice on the New Hampshire Supreme Court. Nobody has reportedly registered opposition to him, but that could be because little is known about Souter...