Word: darkest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...home truth that's easily forgotten in the Y2K-inspired pessimism over the prospect of malfunctioning modems, randomly strobing traffic lights and zero-balance money-market accounts is that one person's darkest nightmare is quite often another's dream come true. In rural Montana, where, it seems fair to speculate, more people know how to gather firewood than download a video image from the Web, the prospect of a massive high-tech meltdown is not only nothing to panic over but also, for a lot of folks, something to be welcomed...
...near the darkest day of the year, Harvard has its own Santa Lucia, the Swedish queen of light, to lead the way through the winter months...
...collection of letters, pictures and other memorabilia of baseball's darkest time--the 1919 "Black Sox Scandal"--was sold by Christie's to various buyers for upwards...
When Meg and Babe have their first moments alone, Meg is able to draw out Babe's darkest secrets, down to the moment when she shot her husband Zachary. Taylor's Babe is mousy and quirky, perfectly genteel if false in her most controlled moments and hauntingly lucid in her moments of insanity. She makes the tale of shooting her husband sound as normal as going to the grocery--an effect which makes it only more disturbing, and more realistic. Babe's obsession with suicide makes her seem only marginally sane, yet the profound truths she uncovers in her wildest...
Giant squid are assumed to live at depths of more than 4,000 feet, in the coldest and darkest parts of the ocean, he said...