Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About food and water: if it is a question of lugging either food or water on the desert, always choose water; in the jungle, water or a water substitute are easily found-animals usually go toward water at dawn and dusk, and there is drinkable stuff in the stems of the heavy jungle vines and rattans. All water should be boiled or purified by adding a chemical...
...large amount of voluntary work with compressed air trainers is expected, especially for the members of Mil Sci 3 and 4. The trainers will probably be set up on Soldiers Field, where they will be available from dawn to dusk...
Battles in the Dusk. Beyond doubt the Wehrmacht had suffered far more than a grave defeat. It had met a disaster that grew hourly. Point after point along the 700-mile front from Orel to Novorossiisk fell like tenpins before the Russian avalanche. In ten weeks (less on some fronts) the Red Armies had advanced from 100 to 350 miles, often through deep snows, often in areas well suited for defense. At no point were they slowed down by the necessity of regrouping. The Russians said that they had already killed, wounded or captured nearly a million German and satellite...
Stealthily through a Solomons channel a Jap Kongo Class battleship slipped near dusk on Oct. 25. A squad of Navy SBDs dive-bombed it, streaked back to Guadalcanal. A half-hour later six Army Flying Fortresses swung over the channel. From a tight, high-level formation they straddle-bombed the ship, scored two square hits. The battleship turned 45 degrees, headed north. Suddenly a magazine let loose. Fire leaped from bow to stern. The ship stopped dead. For hours the calm South Pacific sky and sea were lighted by flames until at midnight the battleship sank...
...communique reported that the Jap base at Munda on New Georgia Island, 180 miles northwest of the American-held Henderson airfield, was hit four times with heavy damage between dawn and dusk yesterday...