Word: darker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Squirrels are scurrying to gather up an inordinate number of nuts. Geese and other birds are heading south as much as a month earlier than usual. To add to the forbidding configuration, the forward end of the woolly bear caterpillar is ominously darker this season. For legions of hunters, woodsmen and students of weather arcana, the evidence is plain-a harsh winter lies ahead. The omens, they warn, are all but unanimous: animal fur is thicker, the perch are running deeper, and the pine tree is unusually laden with seeds. Linwood Rideout of Bowdoinham, Me., a hunting guide...
...most Germans, and to the Al lied judges at Nuremberg who dispensed minor sentences to Lebensborn person nel, that was all there was to Himmler's program. New light is now being cast on a darker and less well-known phase of Lebensborn: the wholesale kidnaping of hundreds of thousands of foreign chil dren for the purpose of adding to Germany's breeding stock...
...boiling kettle, Jupiter's heat helps shape its most prominent features. Pioneer's photographs showed that the great gray-white stripes circling the planet seem to be hot, rising clouds and gases that have been drawn into bands by Jupiter's rapid rotation. The darker orange-brown belts that run parallel to the light bands are probably troughs of cooler, descending gases. Despite the planet's tranquil appearance from afar, it hardly seems hospitable to life. Its atmosphere is apparently ravaged, not only by great bolts of lightning but also by winds with velocities of more...
...plays Mozart with a darker hue than usual, yet is clean and energetic. Canada does not have another orchestra like it, and the ensemble is certainly a match for its smaller U.S. counterparts -notably the Los Angeles and St. Paul chamber orchestras...
...Britain's finest reviewers, Max Beerbohm, branded it "hackwork" and found it "perfunctory and formless," "tedious and frigid." For my money, it's the supreme work of its kind. And Shakespeare, having at last approached perfection, never returned to the genre again, but proceeded to deeper and darker matters...