Word: darkest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room for gravity and beauty. Juniper holds a telling debate with Pepe about the nature of religion that would do some theologians proud. And when Juniper says, in reply to the General's scornful question, "What miracles have you seen?" that he has "seen the bright day follow the darkest night... I have seen individual acts of courage that redeemed the cowardice of nations." the entire audience is hushed...
...darkest days of World War I, about the only consolation that fell to the Belgians was the capture in Africa of two small and scenically beautiful German territories on the eastern border of the vast Belgian Congo. Thereafter, first under a League of Nations mandate and then under the U.N., Belgium continued to rule Ruanda and Urundi through a master tribe of willowy African giants named the Watutsis. The Watutsis had been for four centuries the lords of the Land of the Mountains of the Moon, and there seemed little reason why they should not continue...
...second half of the 20th century, Nixon went on, "can be the darkest or the brightest page in the history of civilization. The decision is in our hands...
...Democratic victories last November, said the President at his press conference last week, had sadly led him to believe that the people were not "too much concerned about inflation. But I think they have changed their minds." Ike's sidelong glance at one of the darkest moments of his Administration betrayed not at all the fact that White House staffers are wearing earsplitting grins behind closed doors, marveling at the too-good-to-last Administration success with the Democratic 86th Congress. Not only had the balanced budget carried the day, but in the U.S. Senate, spawning ground...
Solid Ahead. Behind Britain's trade comeback is a brisk overhaul of its economy. After the September 1957 run on the pound in favor of the German mark, which Britons considered one of the darkest periods since the war, the government decided that more austerity was needed to restore the pound's prestige. It cut down government spending, raised the bank rate to 7%, got banks to put a voluntary "freeze" on bank loans. Britain was also helped by the worldwide drop in prices of raw materials. Its austerity program worked, and by mid-1958 Britain again...