Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cruising off Newport, R. I. one night last week, a coast guard patrol boat leveled its searchlight on a dark, low hull bearing the number C-5677. Guardsmen, recognizing the liquor-runner-suspect Black Duck shouted stop orders. When the Black Duck veered to speed away, guardsmen opened fire, killed three suspected smugglers, wounded a fourth...
Poised like a puzzled poodle with a bon-bon on his nose, M. Herbette wondered what on earth to do with Rumania's note. He tried laying it on Comrade Litvinov's desk. With an impatient gesture the Russian flicked it away. The Frenchman flushed a dark red, stung to the quick of honor, but kept his temper by an effort really superhuman for a diplomat...