Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which earned its author, a Florida housewife, more money than any first novel ever received prior to publication ($20,000 from the Doubleday-Doran Novel Contest, $125,000 from the M-G-M Annual Novel Award). Life is never dull for Lillian, because Willowspring is astir from dawn to dusk with miscegenation, class conflict, drunkenness, antiSemitism, anti-Catholicism and incest...
...Western burrowing owls do not see much better than people-probably because they are not truly nocturnal and do most of their hunting at dusk...
Plump, brilliant Geoffrey Crowther. editor of London's influential Economist, also edits Transatlantic on the side. Its purpose: to interpret Americans to Brit ons. In a recent issue of his monthly, Editor Crowther -appraised British and American attitudes toward each other in the dusk of Lend-Lease cancellation, Big Power troubles, hunger in Europe and plenty in America. What he had to say was still news last week in a U.S. playing host to Clement Attlee and negotiating a loan for Britain...
...dawn on Friday, but dusk for Dai Nippon. Emperor Hirohito had approved the surrender proposal to the Allies. Five days before, the Japanese radio still talked of 100 years' resistance, and there seemed little question of Japan's ability to hold out for months at least. Then in shattering succession came atomic bombing and the Russian declaration of war. The concussion destroyed more than Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
Walking home at dusk from an afternoon's jack rabbit-shooting in the flat, dusty San Joaquin Valley, Levi Multanen, 33, thought of his nephew, long missing in the South Pacific. That reminded him how much he hated Japs. Passing the home of Nisei Charles Iwasaki, a raisin-grape grower, Rancher Multanen paused. He knew who lived there-a Jap. Impulsively he leveled his shotgun, fired four times. He walked home, feeling better. The Iwasakis, scared but unwounded, did nothing...