Word: darkly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that precedes an energetic personality reached the corners of the stuffy meeting before the candidate did. Young women shifted, craned, raised themselves to tiptoe. Wisecracking high school students shut up. Then a little of the Kennedy legend walked through the door. There was impact. He looked presidential in his dark blue suit, so much in contrast with the work-clothed audience. He was polite, deferential, but very much in charge. Things are out of control at home and abroad, he fairly shouted, pumping the air in that familiar Kennedy gesture, fingers folded, thumb on top. Brow furrowed, age and care...
...average 2.8 persons to a room, four to a room in the worst slums) that one newly married couple was forced to live separately, the bride with her parents, the groom with his. The couple found privacy for lovemaking only in their tiny Fiat, parked on a dark street. But even so triumphant a Fiat accompli was rudely interrupted last month by bandits who held up the pair while they were enjoying their cramped privacy...
Bunker Hunt has also used his silver touch on horse breeding. He reputedly owns more thoroughbreds than anyone else in the world; 600 horses wear his light and dark green racing silks. Exceller, a horse he bought for $25,000, later earned more than $1.5 million in prize money. After Hunt became the first American to win both the French and English derbies, in 1976, Baron Guy de Rothschild, president of the French Breeders Association, restricted many French races to horses bred in European Community countries...
Archie C. Epps III, trustee of the BSO and dean of students, said yesterday, "I think Williams was a dark horse, but there was always a feeling that he had strong musical leadership. We were never even sure that he would be interested in the position...
...reports not only the actions and goals of his subjects but their personal habits and histories and even what they were wearing. For instance, did you know that Henry Wallace always referred to President Truman as "that little fellow" or "the salesman" and that Truman usually appeared in a dark blue summer suit, a white shirt, and a tight jaw? Would you believe that Walter Reuther's salary in 1945 was just $7,000 while that of the president of General Motors was $459,000? Did you know that Stokely Carmichael not only spoke Yiddish but liked to taunt Southern...