Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spots where lighter craft had not done the job. Major General Lewis Brereton, boss of the Ninth (tactical) Air Force, which will give close support to the invasion, sent his mediums against the coast, airfields, railroad centers. Swarms of his fighter bombers also hacked from dawn to dusk, bored deeply inland...
...Death at Dusk. It took more than a three-month siege to reduce Canudos, Antonio Conselheiro died; the rebellion became a national crisis. On Oct. 5, 1897, a year after the first expedition, the last defenders of the village were killed. There were four of them, a boy, an old man, two grown men. They faced an army of 5,000 soldiers. They died in a trench which had also been dug to serve as a grave. When the soldiers stormed the trench they were paralyzed. "There before them, a tangible reality, was a trench of the dead, plastered with...
...Infantry Stays. On the first day the Americans, behind a smoke barrage, drove into the northern edge of town. They dug in. At dusk the order came : "Tanks will leave town. Infantry will stay." During the night more doughfoots moved in. The Germans counterattacked at dawn, were held and pushed back, then settled down to a fierce defense of every house, every pile of ruins...
...bluish dusk the sound of gunfire rolled over Moscow and Leningrad, the Dnieper's ruined cities, Rostov on the distant Don. The salvos were Russia's salute to her army on its 26th anniversary. In the Kremlin, Marshal Joseph Stalin marked the date with a 2,000-word order, fat with the names of battles won, seasoned with pride and confidence, barbed with reference to Russia's "singlehanded" combat, Said Stalin...
Again Russian hamlets set afire by alien hands glowed in the bluish dusk, and misshapen figures dangled from the gallows. Again the thunder of Red artillery pursued the fleeing men through day & night, and white-painted Stormoviks hopped over the gaunt trees to bomb and strafe...