Word: blackest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beyond Control. The events, understandably, spread gloom to a big Boeing 707 jet flying over the deserts of Saudi Arabia one day last week. U.S. reporters on board heard one of the blackest assessments of global events ever uttered by a certain "senior American official." That prescribed euphemism, of course, failed to disguise the obvious source: Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. To hear him tell it, sounding like an airborne Spengler. American foreign policy seemed to be spinning out of control-and almost solely because Americans had plunged masochistically into a self-destructive attitude toward world affairs induced by their...
...whole thing. You know, there's some who'll say. 'Well here we are, white playing in black, or here we are black, but we play so white.' And I just say, 'Why don't you just play some music, please, instead of saying who's the blackest and who's the whitest of the blackest of the whitest of the blackest...
...this moment." I'd been waiting for that for two and a half years, I'd done everything I could for two and a half years to prevent it by informing the public, and had totally failed. It had neither convinced anyone nor prevented it. It was the blackest weekend of my life, the one time that I can remember feeling total, absolute despair...
...fort, Francois might have gone to the fort. He was drawn to the fort in his blackest moods. It was in ruins now, a remnant of the almost-glories of Napoleon III. We often found Francois there leaning against the rocks, making his own comfort out of fantasies of destruction. I circled the slimy stones. He was not there...
...economy, they can now see nothing but uncertainty-and sure enough, the market cannot stand it. A nearly perpendicular drop in prices has sheared a staggering $100 billion off the value of exchange-listed shares in the past six weeks and plunged Wall Street into its blackest gloom in two decades. In brokerage offices, the talk is all of margin calls, possible failure of some big investment houses and actual or potential unemployment for analysts and brokers...