Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That Goddam Target." It was dusk. The sea barely rippled, faded from sight and we were alone in the battleship greyness. It was censorable degrees below zero and we had reached censorable heights...
...noon the next day the military governor had been replaced and the town was quiet once more. At dusk a convoy of British troops entered Teheran, marched through the deserted streets with bayonets fixed and machine guns swinging. Teheran was under control...
...dusk they maneuvered into the middle of a coastwise convoy of six cargo ships and three small naval vessels. Away went the sub's torpedoes and down went two Jap merchantmen. Klakring let his crew take a look through the periscope at "this very pretty sight." When the other Jap ships, panic-stricken, turned and raced for the shore, Klakring surfaced and gave chase. He dogged one ship into a cove and plumped a torpedo into her middle. It was a lucky hit at long range. But, said Klakring, a soft-spoken Marylander, "If I had missed...
...lion next boarded a train to Cologne, got through two examinations of his false papers, mixed with a friendly carload of Nazi soldiers. He sneaked across the border to Belgium Then by stealing rides on trucks, Hélion reached the French frontier, crawled through vegetable gardens at dusk, evading patrols, and reached Paris...
...usual Monday program of labs and mil sci drills kept the squad at skeleton strength, but Harlow drove his B and C team players through a long scrimmage, working out with a white ball until long after dusk...