Word: darker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which he hopes will permit "a normal life as a woman," and to have a whirl at writing a book on the experience. Said Charlotte: "We are an army of people who live deeply depressed, under circumstances we cannot control. Now doctors have helped me, but my future seems darker than ever because it's now a question of a young girl's existence...
...voting for a President of France dragged on at Versailles, ballot after ballot, the mood of the French press and public grew darker with rage and indignation. In Lyon, citizens hung up a street banner reading: THE CONGRESS OF VERSAILLES IS A MOCKERY. FRENCHMEN OF ALL OPINIONS, SHOW DISAPPROVAL BY PUTTING YOUR FLAGS AT HALF-MAST. What had begun as a "glorious uncertainty" (in the words of mercurial Foreign Minister Georges Bidault) had degenerated into an inglorious ordeal. Although the presidency is supposed to be above politics, it was partisan politics that blocked a choice for so long...
...lyrics as heartily as he. His blood running hot, a trace of sweat on his brow, Sir Winston was moved almost to tears at the reunion's climax when the Harrow boys chorused a familiar version of the school song in his honor: "Nor less we praise in darker days/ The leader of our nation,/ And Churchill's name shall win acclaim/ From each new generation...
...band of seven nature painters who far surpassed New York's bland "Hudson River School." To picture the raw splendor of Canada's glaciers, frozen lakes and jack-pine forests, they developed a rough & ready brand of French Impressionism, with broader strokes and darker colors. In the 1920s Canadian critics inclined to scoff at the group; now that its efforts are history, it is becoming more and more revered...
...satisfy oculists who wanted sunglasses made darker, and to meet the Army-Navy Vision Committee's preference for glasses that do not distort colors, the L. J. Houze Convex Glass Co. announced an all-purpose "Natural View" lens. The result of years of testing chemical combinations to get the right color, the glass can be made into drugstore models or ground into prescription lenses...