Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last anyone saw of this adventure was the strange machine's magnificent trajectory into the dusk-as if a match had been swept across a hot stovelid. That same evening a plane exploded above the Thames estuary with such violence that neither pilot nor much of the wreckage was found. But R.A.F. flyers concluded that scraps of wreckage they found had once belonged to the DH-108. It was possible that Captain De Havilland had made his new record (unofficially) ; and that for one fearful moment, he had experienced more of the new problems of aeronautics than is known...
...dusk, throughout the Roman countryside, loudspeakers suddenly blared an incitement to landless farm workers: "Landless poor, collectively occupy the land of those who have too much. ..." The signal for the expropriation: church bells tolling at dawn. The inciting voices were Communists and left-wing socialists. But the motive force for expropriation was months of disappointment at the Republic's failure to satisfy the land hunger of the rural proletariat...
...next evening, at dusk, Correspondent Newton was coming home in a taxi. As it turned into Bartholomeu Mitre Street, the dark mass of the sandpile loomed up in the mist, and Newton shouted a warning to the driver. As the chauffeur turned to ask what was wrong, the taxi plowed into the sandpile...
...Government to find adequate housing. The day after the CWACs cleared out, V.H.L. Leader Franklyn Edward Hanratty, a pint-sized pepper pot who flew 48 R.C.A.F. missions, handed an ultimatum to Ottawa's Mayor Stanley Lewis to do something about housing or else. The Mayor sat tight. At dusk eleven vets, their wives and 18 children rumbled out to Kildare Barracks in trucks. They unloaded beds, stoves, washing machines, etc., and set up house. By midnight, the children were tucked in bed, the parents tuckered out but determined to stay put. Soon another 14 vets followed.* The V.H.L. served...
...quite understand each other. I wish to thank you mainly for the night you had me stand from dusk to dawn at attention, trying to make me squeal on my fellow comrades. That is the main reason I hate...