Word: darknesse
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The end came while Nkrumah was flying toward Peking on a self-appointed, self-inflated peace mission. Like the Nigerian coup six weeks earlier, it was led by Sandhurst-trained officers who knew precisely what they were doing. At 4:30 a.m. in the predawn darkness of Accra, two brigades...
Debate & Dismay. Dahood's translation, which tries to evoke the brisk, rugged quality of Hebrew poetry, is certain to cause both scholarly debate and popular dismay. Like all modern scholars, Dahood has access to more accurate manuscripts than those available to the translators of the King James version. Thus...
When members of his coalition threatened to rebel, he yanked them into line by the sheer force of his personality and his ruthless tongue. So deadly was his sting in Parliament ("The conducted tour of the Honorable Member's mind would have been more instructive if it had not...
The Inquisition was a page of terrible madness in history, but it was not the same as the racial and class madness that drowned Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia in the blood of victims who outnumbered Torquemada's by more than 1,000 to one...
For seven humid, wakeful nights, the crash of thunder and flash of lightning had kept the cariocas awake, and the superstitious among them wondered if the gods of darkness had decided to unloose their wrath. Apparently they had. Abruptly the skies opened over Rio, and in four days torrential rains...