Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Portland: Blacked out. Portlanders have worked into the routine smoothly except that they turn lights on dangerously early in the mornings....Night fogs, common at this season, are now welcomed as Portlanders watch for the grey haze rolling up the Columbia and Willamette Rivers at dusk. They like to compare Portland fogs to London fogs-previously treasonable...
...dusk fell in Vichy a solitary figure could be seen walking along the banks of the Allier River evidently in deep thought, hands behind his back. But few recognized General Maxime Weygand, who tonight is still Delegate-General of the Government for French Africa with full powers to act on his own initiative in cases of emergency. Those who did bared their heads, sensing that the slight man, still athletic despite his 74 years, was engaging in a deep moral struggle...
Practice at Dusk...
...dusk, the bombers left the town a horrible mass of red, heaping ruins whose flames could be seen reflecting in clouds of smoke above the moutains for miles away. Many survivors took their carts, piled high with such household goods as could be saved, and crowded the roads all night long to the northern seaport town of Bilbao. But many, unable to get away, stayed round the burning town, lying on mattresses or searching for children and other relatives...
...HAVEN, Eng.-Disabled German war prisoners who boarded two hospital ships here at dusk expecting their freedom within a few hours in exchange for British prisoners under a "mercy" armistice, were placed under heavy guard and their ships blacked out tonight when the repatriations plans suddenly were postponed...