Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dusk outside, German Haus-frauen listened in bewilderment to the discordant doughboy opera. The irreverent G.I.s, having captured the opera house and set up a command post there, had found the property room intact. Tired as they were, the temptation to dress up and put on a show was too much for them. The performance lasted two hours...
...Shrill, scratch-penned Eleanor Jewett of Chicago's America-First Tribune put up a bald landscape of rolling hills and lowering sky, seen through a purplish haze of late-afternoon dusk: The Day Ends by Charles Kilgore...
...gloom of dusk our craft fouled and for more than an hour we crouched in its belly, a perfect target for the Germans. Our little driver asked how far away the enemy was. 'Just over the bank,' someone replied. 'Which bank do you mean?' 'The one right in front of you.' 'Then let me out quick!' the driver yelled, and clambered over the side into two feet of water. ... I felt a lot safer myself after we were moving again. That night we slept in an abandoned farmhouse, and at an early...
Shells on a Shore. Out of the gathering dusk loomed reef-ringed Okino-Daito, 450 miles from the Japanese homeland. All night the fleet paraded by while the guns spoke a deadly monologue. As dawn broke, the ships steamed...
...Germans had erected in five months of quiet. A wide belt of mines protected it, and along it were earthworks and pillboxed guns-25 to 40 of them to each mile. The Katushas and guns spoke again. Flamethrowers spat at the strong points until their timbered linings blazed. By dusk on Saturday Marshal Konev knew that he had what he wanted: a definite break through the deep German line...