Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about 17 days in a regular cycle, the colony moves its bivouac every night. Toward dusk one of the raiding columns loses its martial excitement, slows its pace. Then the raiders fall into a steady, plodding lockstep. At the far end of the column, up to 200 yards long, they clot together in a tight, solid mass. The news of the move spreads back to the previous bivouac. As raiders come in from forays in other directions, they turn and follow the plodding column...
...uppity. Three weeks ago, a white woman said she saw him and a young Negro named Albert Harris trying to get into her house."She shined a light and they ran away. The sheriff picked them up and took them to the red brick Webster Parish jail. Along about dusk a couple of nights' later he let them go because nobody had filed any charges against them...
...After dusk (not a single room was left and latecomers slept in the streets) fireworks crackled in the peaceful sky, and at the Casino there were sounds of snobbery by night: 40 British airmen who flew over for the occasion forgot their dress suits, and were turned away from the ballroom...
...Ernie Bevin's small brown eyes wearily encompassed the gilded room, of which everyone was heartily sick by now. As last-day chairman of the conference, he asked: "Any more items?" Bidault waved his hands in a negative gesture. Molotov gazed stonily through the window at the dusk settling over the Luxembourg Gardens. Byrnes shook his head and absently kept penciling a pattern of diminishing circles on a loose sheet of paper. "All right," said Bevin at 9:17. "We meet again at the Peace Conference...
...sunrise, at midday and at dusk, church bells call to each other across the Emilian plain. In the past year anticlerical terrorists in the diocese of Reggio Emilia, near Bologna, had answered the bells by murdering five priests. Two months ago the Vatican sent to the tough district a tough bishop, Beniamino Socche...