Word: darker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overcast sky grew darker Saturday afternoon, Joe Restic sat quietly with reporters in the comfort of Dillon Field House. In the background, you could hear the crazed screams of a jubilant Harvard football team, celebrating its first win in six weeks with riotous commotion in the locker room...
...Sonny, every time the fool thing comes around, the snow gets deeper and the horses get darker...
...company. "They are finally jamming on the brakes, having done too little for a long time." But late as the switch is, Eckstein believes, "it's going to work. The chances are the inflation rate, currently 13.1%, will drop below 9% by February." But Eckstein sees a darker side: "There is no question that the economy is now going to turn down quite sharply. We are forecasting that unemployment, now 5.8%, will hit 8% by the second half of next year." Still, Eckstein thinks that the recession will be a bit less bitter than...
...treacherous shoals that face a tenor. Early in his career he was a classic tenore lirico, ideally suited to lighter lyric roles like Rodolfo, and florid bel canto roles like Nemorino in L'Elisir d'Amore. With age, however, a tenor's voice takes on a heavier tone and darker coloration. By the time he is in his 40s, a tenore lirico is usually ready for roles in the intermediate spin to (pushed) range, like Cavaradossi in Tosca, and maybe even in the forceful, baritonal tenore drammatico category, like the title role of Otello. But he must use extreme care...
...Palestinian holidaymaker strolled leisurely back to his luxurious rented apartment on La Croisette after a lucky evening at the roulette tables. As the elevator doors let him out on the fourth floor, two sportily dressed young men-one described as a tall, blond European, the other as a slighter, darker man who could have been North African-pounced from the corridor. After a scuffle and a shot, the Palestinian was left dying with a .32-cal. bullet in his head...