Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William James camp was on a full-time basis, and the workers were doing farm work from dawn to dusk. Last summers camp in New Hampshire required considerably less work, but it was felt that more insure time devoted to educational studies would be more profitable to the campers. Nevertheless, many of the boys helped nearby farmers with their haying as well as worked on the dam itself...
...rumored attack on a German submarine, the Secretary said it was grossly exaggerated. A destroyer, rescuing survivors from a torpedoed British ship, did hear the vibrations of an approaching submarine at dusk one afternoon. The destroyer did drop one depth bomb, and the vibrations thereupon ceased. But the submarine was too far away to suffer any serious damage. The depth bomb was dropped, said Colonel Knox, just as a warning...
...another warning by 8 a.m., several more during the morning, one at noon as sure as etiquette (which cheats no Londoner out of his lunch). During the afternoon those who care to may usually witness a "dogfight"; then, from 4 p.m. until dark, it is ordinarily quiet. Each metropolitan dusk, in that suspended silence and foreboding, is deep with a quality of sadness new to history. And in this dusk the humble, scorning their useless surface shelters, form their huge processions toward the untoileted stench of the Tubes of the West...
...hurriedly mumbled their marriage vows before Selective Service caught them-not to avoid serving in the Army, but to sandwich in a brief honeymoon before they went off alone to camp. On the day after graduation day at West Point, chaplains were busy from 9:30 a.m. until dusk, married 26 second lieutenants with the ink barely dry on their commissions...
...shot 73, Hogan 74, Demaret 75, Guldahl 79. On the second day, play was held up for an hour during a rainstorm that sent an unprepared gallery of 10,000 running helter-skelter for shelter. When the last bedraggled, drenched and mud-caked player turned in his card at dusk, the thundering herd of Texans were still just a distant...