Word: darkly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Penetrating 20 ft. down, they came to a layer of rubbly soil which they recognized as the earth-fill foundation of Roman temples of Mater Mututa, goddess of childbirth, and Fortuna, protectress of women who have been married only once. In this hallowed ground they found twelve fragments of dark brown pottery decorated with incised dots and geometrical figures...
...game if he never completed a pass or made a yard on the ground. For not only has Baker wondered if Oregon State is the proper place for him-despite his status there as a demigod that would make any other player dizzy with glory-but he harbors dark doubts about the wisdom of even playing the game of football in the first place...
...free. Morocco last year imported $1,000,000 in secondhand garments. In East Africa, the political and missionary propaganda on the importance of wearing clothes has succeeded so well that any native wearing only a loincloth is now derided as mtu hivi hivi -a wild man. The men like dark jackets, preferably dinner jackets, and the bigger the satin lapels the better. The clothes campaign has had fair success with East African women: despite the dearth of rain, the ladies' most popular item is a used raincoat-with nothing underneath...
LAUGHTER IN THE DARK (292 pp.)-Vladimir Nabokov - New Directions...
...dancers Brigitte Bardot in "Come Dance With Me" is at the Brattle, and "Dark at the Top of the Stairs" is playing at the University...