Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Thomas H. Eliot of Cambridge, Democrat, 33, replaced baggy, antique Republican Robert Luce, chief of Luce's Press Clipping Bureau. Eliot, handsome, dark, wavy-haired, erudite as his grandfather's Five-Foot-Shelf, once rowed for Harvard, was a Boston Globe reporter, still likes to write Letters To The Editor. Eliot co-authored the present Social Security Act, was New England Wage-Hour Administrator when he decided to run. He and his wife made a house-to-house campaign...
...from the mouth of the Sound, where the surging water boils through a deep passage, a little short of a mile wide. No one can swim the Narrows; the tides are too swift, the water too cold. The Narrows make one of the Northwest's dramatic views-the dark green evergreens and the far peaks of the Olympics above the opposite shore, the wide sweep of water beyond Fox Island and Point Defiance, Mount Rainier in the east, and directly below, the shimmering green water, flicked with white caps as the tides change...
Last week a hash of defense arithmetic confused the U. S. people. The Department of Commerce announced that the number of planes exported to Great Britain and Canada had dropped from 365 in August to 204 in September, causing dark conjectures that U. S. plane production had bogged down before it was well started. Yet Mr. Roosevelt talked big of ordering 12,000 more planes for the U. S., supplying 12,000 more to Great Britain-all in addition to the 33,000 already on order for delivery by April 1942. Moreover, the President proclaimed a new rule-of-thumb...
...continue using three of R. N.'s bases on the new State's coasts. When, in 1938, old Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and young Dominions Secretary Malcolm MacDonald relinquished Britain's rights in these bases, even for wartime, Winston Churchill spoke hotly and prophetically. "The dark forces of the Irish underworld," he barked, "already tried to stab Britain in the back during the World War and [Prime Minister Eamon] de Valera would not be able to control them if he assumed a friendly attitude toward Britain...
Seldom seen, seldom heard. Tycoon Levitt avoids the spotlight, leaves evangelical work to dark, dynamic Alfred...