Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Signature)" "Don't," the instructions added, "write between the lines." But if letters could not cross the frontier, statesmen could and did. Fortnight ago, first dark little Vice Premier Pierre Laval, then doddering Chief of State Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, crossed to Paris to negotiate with Hitler. Last week, Laval, adding Paul Ba'udouin's portfolio of Foreign Affairs to those he already held, made a second trip to Paris, talked long with German civilian and military authorities...
...believes, a matter of the ease or difficulty with which body heat is disposed of. In cold, dry climates the disposal is easy. This stimulates people, tends to make them grow faster, to protect them against infections. In the Dark Ages, when the Temperate Zone's climate was much warmer than now, wine grapes grew in England, cereals in Iceland, men were poor specimens-short, sluggish, easy victims of plague...
...night was warm for November, still and starless; on a flagpole above the portico the blue Presidential flag, with its shield, eagle and white stars, flapped listlessly. Hyde Park House was dark, the big green shutters swung snug to the front windows-from outside, not a crack of light showed from the library. Inside and out, the atmosphere was solemn, expectant, tense...
Democratic Cleveland's Republican Mayor Harold Hitz Burton had won 17 consecutive elections when he defied Ohio Boss Ed Schorr last spring and got the Republican nomination for Senator. This week dark, grey-eyed Hal Burton came through once more, handily defeated onetime (1937-39) Democratic Congressman John McSweeney...
Catholicism's lot in Mexico has eased slightly of late years. Under its lean, dark, learned Archbishop Luis Maria Martinez y Rodriguez, a friend of President Lazaro Cardenas, the Church has been law-abiding, has seen one restriction after another lifted or lapsed. But still in effect are such cynically anti-religious provisos as the State of Tabasco's law permitting any priest to officiate provided he is married...