Word: darkest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Israel's darkest hour, Richard Nixon, heedless of the consequences, ordered the Defense Department, over their objection, to start a 24-hour-a-day emergency airlift which Prime Minister Golda Meir claimed was invaluable in turning the tide of the battle, Only the Portuguese and the Dutch supported him (Prime Minister Heath refused the use of British airbases), but his resolve did not waiver. And the consequences were severe: the oil embargo, doubling of gasoline prices and a fall in the polls from which he never recovered. But President Nixon had the satisfaction of doing what was right...
Even Roach of Morgan Stanley thinks a "productivity-led recovery" could bring back the days when a rising tide really did lift all the boats. But he adds a strong caveat: "My darkest fear is of macho corporate managers who will slash and burn, and will not make a true commitment for the longer haul to expand their market share through judicious rebuilding. Then we will have hollow industries that will undermine our competitive advantage over the long haul, and that will be an unmitigated disaster for growth and jobs." Downsizing was and is a painful necessity, but bosses need...
...grisly hallmark of a horrifyingly intimate style of slaughter, literal hand-to-hand combat. The predominantly Tutsi forces of the Rwandan Patriotic Front and the Hutu-dominated army and presidential guard battled each other with mortars, machine guns and hand grenades. But what kept people shuddering in the darkest corners of their homes were the machete-armed gangs of Hutu men on a wild killing spree, often drunk and dressed in startling fashions looted from abandoned stores and houses of the dead. Swaggering Hutu men and boys paraded through the city, loaded with weapons and cheap liquor. Many...
...representing powers and principalities with no interest in solving the crimes; and, it becomes horribly clear, by the same night stalker they themselves are trying to capture. And at about this time, Moore begins to have doubts: Are Kreizler's own exceedingly peculiar actions explainable by any but the darkest motives...
While myths associated with Widener, Memorial Hall and the Union run rampant, very few of us are aware that the deepest darkest, most fearsome secrets here at Harvard lurk in--The Quad. In order to penetrate the compendium of riddles, the pandora's box of mystery, the den of debauchery we know and love to be the Quad, I decide to investigate one of the truly remarkable institutions here at Harvard...