Word: darkest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spanish matadors, so daring at home, often so cautious on tours abroad. The explanation: bull handlers in Spain soften up the bulls beforehand by trimming their horns. Last week aficionados on both sides of the Atlantic were embroiled in hot debate-and the Latin Americans had confirmation of their darkest suspicions-after a series of revelations by no less an authority than Antonio Bienvenida, rated among Spain's top ten matadors...
...bring himself to take blame for things that went wrong (like the wholesale sinking of allied ships off the East Coast early in 1942). He was a typical tourist, delighting in side trips to the antiquities of Egypt and Jerusalem, and flights over Bagdad and Damascus, even in the darkest days of war. And he had the G.I.'s souvenir-hunting spirit: at Teheran, he tried to "liberate" one of Stalin's desk-pad doodles, and was miffed when a Briton beat...
Died. H. T. (Harold Tucker) Webster, 67, cartoonist ("The Timid Soul," "Life's Darkest Moment," "The Thrill That Comes Once in a Lifetime") of a heart attack; on a train near Bridgeport, Conn. Webster's most popular creation was fluttery, myopic Caspar Milquetoast, but he was nearly as well-known for his cartooned jibes at bridge and canasta fiends, radio & TV (for which he received a Peabody Award in 1950), wives who never understand a joke, and for his knowing, sometimes poignant recollections of a turn-of-the-century childhood...
...this establishment impress them by shooting disappearing ink at them and shocking them electrically when they are induced to shake hands with you. It cannot be disputed that squirting ink is a quick and inexpensive way of breaking down a social reserve that might be unshaken by the very darkest grey flannel, but with this break down the entire fabric of social dency and respectability is torn into shreds all for the sake of letting out a few miserable frustrations and filling a vulgar tradesman's coffers...
...Frederic Nirdlinger. a well-known critic and playwright, got him his first job of cub reporter and third-string drama critic for the New York Herald. Three years later, in 1908, Nathan was introduced to H. L. Mencken. Stanley had met Livingstone in what both men felt to be darkest America...