Word: darkest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game the techniques of flimflamming the bureaucrats, e.g., it was a rare budget official who realized that Kummersdorf's request for funds to buy an "appliance for milling wooden dowels up to 10 millimeters in diameter" meant that the rocketmen needed a pencil sharpener. Years later, during the darkest days of the U.S. Army's missile program, Wernher von Braun was to put such Kummersdorf experience to historic...
...Angeles, collecting Coke bottles to pad out his food budget. A small-town boy from Washington, he picked up a smattering of guitar while he was in the Air Force, and after his discharge he started touring the West Coast's less-than-first-water water holes. His darkest hour came in the Elks Club in Wenatchee, Wash. The three other hillbillies in his four-billy band were delayed in the hills; alone, Rodgers faced some 40 disappointed Elks. "I started strumming so hard it brought deep blisters up, and I lost a fingernail. But finally they began...
...Long ranked as Europe's darkest museum, the Prado has begun the long-overdue installation of a scientific scheme of lighting (mixture of blue, yellow and rose neon to approximate sunlight). Predicted Prado Director Fernando Alvarez de Sotomayor: "By next year I think we will be able to say, 'Now the whole museum is illuminated...
...Darkest Before Dawn. The doctors lured the student volunteers with a graduated pay scale: $20 for staying awake the first 24 hours, $25 for the second and $30 for the third day. Unlike the victims of secret police, the students were subjected to no emotional stress, could pass the time as they pleased-reading, listening to the radio, playing games, talking. Relays of monitors watched them throughout the 72 hours, ready to nudge any who dozed. Remarkably, none...
DURING the darkest moments of mob rule at Little Rock, the Right Rev. Robert Raymond Brown, Episcopal Bishop of Arkansas, picked up his phone and put in a long-distance call to Washington. Bishop Brown was calling Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson, once a member of his parish in Richmond, to offer his good offices in any sort of effort to be helpful in what he called "the school situation." Assistant Secretary Robertson called Attorney General Herbert Brownell, who called the President, who sat down almost immediately and wrote the Bishop a letter. "I deeply believe," said the President...