Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...command the air corps of the Fourth Air Service Area (headquarters at Pendleton, Ore.), Lieut. Colonel John A. Macready, first dawn-to-dusk flyer from New York to San Diego...
...Yard and high voices along Wig row, they expected you to start all over again as though nothing had happened. A week's respite and the long, grey eternity of the Fall Term would begin again. Long evenings in the House library, rain and fog, November hours, early dusk, tutorial conferences, all stood beckoning ghoulishly...
...daughters of worthy families hover in village doorways after tea, to chat with passing soldiers, free from camp for the evening. Country hedgerows echo in the dusk with laughter and new rustlings. In factory canteens, men and women in mutually greasy trousers lunch together by accident, arrange without benefit of formal introductions to dine more quietly elsewhere. At the "flicks" (movies), neighbors who have never seen each other hold hands. Adjoining seats in busses, trams and trains are excuse enough for a conversation which may lead to a quick drink, or maybe...
...munitions, ships and food products, and caring for the wounded. The river plays a vital part in industrial life. At Volga piers land oil tankers and other ships loaded with iron and foods. The noise of machines and the song of Volga dockers do not stop from dawn to dusk. Here we can see how the huge wheel of war whirls unceasingly...
They saw it at its best when the enemy made his first attempt in eleven months to bomb Chungking, which had lain in its dugouts, all but defenseless, through 142 destructive raids between 1939 and 1941. It was the dusk of a balmy day when in fighter headquarters the radio began to peep and squawk. Chinese operators took the messages; they came from courageous Chinese watchers at secret radios deep...