Word: darknesse
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The scene is a composite of dozens of war movies, one of those celluloid images that have become part of the collective mythology. In the foxhole, the baby-faced private is writing a last letter home; the hillbilly soldier is whistling a ballad; the taciturn corporal is just staring wide...
The only Black person in the Norwegian town inwhich she stayed, Michel said some local residentscut off samples of her hair to examine whileothers tried to rub off the darkness of her skin.
Residents throughout the Quad greeted the darkness with shock and surprise but mostly with quiet.
The College back-up generators turned on emergency lights throughout the Quad in minutes. But for the students who were stranded in Hilles when the lights failed, the five to 10 minutes of darkness seemed longer.
If, like some musical Rip Van Winkle, a 19th century man awoke today in a concert hall or an opera house after decades of slumber, he would find that things had hardly changed. Stirring to life in his seat, he would pick up the comforting strains of a Beethoven symphony...