Word: starkness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stark, Stiff...
...Stark" means stiff. And bodies newly slain are in general very limp. In this case, of course, redundance made them doubly stiff...
...perhaps the Congo's greatest wonder: the "Pigmy Forest," also called the "Stanley Forest" and the "Great Forest of the Congo." Strong, hearty, cheerful, white men have not seldom emerged from a journey through the Pigmy Forest with hair turned white and mind temporarily unhinged by its stark terror. Darkness. The Great Forest is always dark. So prodigious is the foliage that even at high noon deep twilight reigns. Jungle. The mass of tangled, choking creepers must be chopped through at every step, and actually closes behind the explorer within 48 hours, so that if he would retrace...
...survivor, José Aguila, babbled: "lost our rudder and were dashed between two great rocks . . . waves 30 feet high . . . every lifeboat sank ... we fought for bits of floating timber ... I was knocked senseless and flung by the waves stark naked on the beach. ... I and a few others were saved only because God is great...
Married. Wladek Zbyszko, famed wrestler; to Anna Stark, 18, actress; in Union City...