Word: darkly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...robed sheiks but zealous dark-suited young Arab technicians dominated the first Arab Petroleum Congress in Cairo last week. The 420 delegates looked at the $6,000,000 worth of machinery exhibits and held seminars in drilling techniques-but their real interest was oil politics. The Arabs were out for more money and more control over their oil (the Middle East has two-thirds of the world's supply). In the Cairo hotel lobbies, the man everyone wanted to see was a Saudi Arabian with a bright, quick smile, and a profile as sharp as a scimitar...
...dark, wispy little man with the high forehead and the doe-brown eyes raised his hands. Softly he blew into the instrument half-hidden between his palms. He could no more describe the magic than could his friend Feather, after seeing a similar performance almost 20 years ago. There was no need. Haunting as a train whistle at midnight, evocative as a gutbucket trumpet, as clean as a bank of violins, the music made by Harmonicist Larry Adler, 45, transformed the tawdry basement nightclub. For a little while last week, the bandstand at San Francisco's "hungry i" nightclub...
Across the world this week Jehovah's people gathered, family by family, in huts and houses, slum flats and luxury apartments, to celebrate their Lord's great act of deliverance-the Passover. It was the 3,271st anniversary, according to Jewish reckoning, of that dark night when the Lord moved through Egypt, striking down the firstborn, "from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon . . . and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead...
Seeger rolled the cuffs of his dull orange shirt above his elbows. He was dressed informally--blue pants and work shoes. (At the concert next evening he added a red tie and dark jacket...
...Dark at the Top of the Stairs. William Inge's characters are alone, afraid, in a world they halfway made. In CHICAGO...