Word: darkest
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...shock waves quickly spread from the Palace of Congresses through the Soviet Union and the world. For Gorbachev, who shook his head in disbelief as his Foreign Minister spoke, it was the darkest hour of his leadership. Not only had he lost one of his closest allies in the Kremlin, but it seemed obvious that he could no longer continue walking a tightrope over the heads of reformist democrats, national separatists and proponents of a law-and-order crackdown; the splits had become too deep and envenomed for that. And Shevardnadze tossed in a warning of what might happen...
...during some of the darkest days of World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visited Franklin Roosevelt in the White House at Christmas. He helped the President light the White House tree and in a short speech noted the curious intermingling of doubt and joy enveloping the world: "Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grownups share to the full their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before...
...Bronx Zoo. You stare at the beasts of prey and find a brute charisma in their demeanor. You wonder how you would act if you lived in their world, where aggression is rewarded and decency is crushed. Finally you walk away, tantalized by a view into the darkest part of yourself, glad that that part is still behind bars...
...body of Kurt Vonnegut's writing contains some of the most uncomfortably funny social satire in English. What is offered here is something else, a try at prophecy in the darkest and gloomiest biblical sense. As prophecy it is major or minor, right or wrong, the reader's choice. As literature it is minor Vonnegut...
...Protestant body, since the anti-Fundamentalists have now lost all hope of turning the tide. When computers had counted the ballot cards, editor Jack U. Harwell of the moderate monthly SBC Today remarked that "the holy war is over. The Fundamentalists have won. We're fixing to enter the darkest period in our history." But Chapman believes the Bible battle has been settled once and for all, and that the S.B.C. "will become an explosive force for Christ around the world...