Word: darkest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before dawn the recorded radio beat of tom-toms sounded out across the cocoa plantations and straw-hut villages of the Gold Coast, awakening hundreds of African officials and thousands of voters, the tribal cry of darkest Africa summoning everybody to an election. All day the voters calmly queued up outside the polling huts, picked up their ballots, had their thumbs smeared with indelible ink to prevent duplicate voting, walked into the huts and dropped their ballots into boxes...
Last week Grotewohl got his answer in a pamphlet issued by the West German Socialists. The founding of the SED, said the pamphlet, was "the darkest day in the German workers' movement." It solemnly warned: "Whoever tries to make a pact with Communists will perish doing so ... Whoever lets the Communists have his little finger will lose his whole hand . . . Whoever tries to remain neutral towards Communism gives himself...
...Philosophy departments. Now his invective became so extreme that practically everyone on campus joined in the ridicule. He met incessant boos and jeers at his anti-Hiss, anti-Princeton talk on the eve of the great event, and caused a minor demonstration when he asserted, "Princeton is in its darkest hour...
...Philosophy departments. Now his invective became so extreme that practically everyone on campus joined in the ridicule. He met incessant boos and jeers at his anti-Hiss, anti-Princeton talk on the eve of the great event, and caused a minor demonstration when he asserted, "Princeton is in its darkest hour...
Halton further charged that Princeton is in its "darkest hour" and that the Hiss controversy is "only a dramatic expression of the University's spiritual crisis...