Word: darknesse
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Electrical workers went on a wildcat strike, plunging one Vienna district into darkness. Left-wing papers roared against "foreign and domestic reactionaries," and Socialist political bosses threatened to pull out of their coalition with the conservative People's Party.
In dazzling sunlight last week, 30,000 singing, dancing Africans gathered before Nairobi's Ministry of Works. A great roar went up as two solemn men emerged. One was Kenya's British Governor Malcolm MacDonald, resplendent in blue dress uniform. The other, wearing his customary leather jacket and...
In the darkened street outside, the strangers' spokesman suddenly dropped his bundle. He stooped and straightened up with a blazing submachine gun. Civil Guard Sergeant Aquilino Sam Jara fell dead. Other guardsmen returned the fire, dropping two of the bearded strangers as the other five fled in the darkness...
Kiril Lakota was a Ukrainian, and at 50 he was the youngest and most obscure of the 85 cardinals who met in the Sistine Chapel to elect a new Pope. His very name had just become known in Rome, having been kept in petto by the dead Pontiff-as are...
Unlike many a modern intellectual. Arnold did not retreat into ivory-tower es-theticism. sour stoical isolation or epicurean sensuality. Instead, in the muscular Victorian fashion, he drowned his sorrow at his loss of faith by working to keep alive a critical spirit in an age of complacency. Though his...