Word: darkest
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...Diplomacy Embarrassed U.N. officials were searching for a new date for the upcoming referendum on the unification of the Greek south and Turkish north of Cyprus after realizing that April 21 - the date earmarked for the ballot - coincided with the anniversary of one of the darkest days in modern Greek history. On that day in 1967, the Greek military mounted a coup that resulted in seven years of military dictatorship in Athens and eventually triggered the Turkish invasion of Cyprus...
...keep beating that drum forever?" Dr. T. blithely sneers, "Oh, that isn't the man I'm punishing. My man is inside the drum." And we see, in silhouette, a figure pressed against the drum skin, pleading for Terwilliker to "Let me out!" - Seussian whimsy at its starkest and darkest...
Maybe there really is something to that darkest-before-the-light stuff...
...Galper and Rubins gave us a rare treat: a spunky musical to buck us up in the darkest days before our Thanksgiving release. I also appreciated the duo’s attempts to use the play to address our troubled present; as Galper wrote in the program, South Pacific has a “timeless human message of the power of prejudice and the importance of love during a tumultuous time of war.” I’m not sure that South Pacific really works on this level, but I like that this marvelous team viewed it that...
...external fixator held the bones in place for the first two months after her legs were broken. That came off June 26, she recalls. Lynch has a crisp memory for dates: how long she was in which hospital, which day she made which breakthrough--everything except the first, darkest moments of her captivity. Of those, she says she has no recollection. Otherwise, she is organized, thorough, precise. Perfect qualities for a supply clerk. And she is pale, skinny, with thin, straight legs that look as if they would be easy to snap. Hardly ideal for surviving the most deadly ambush...