Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dusk had fallen and now the British knew they were near the southern squadron. They knew they were going to have a fight after all these months of wake-riding. They knew that at last they were going to shake the living rivets out of the Eyeties...
...your loving son, and though you will certainly never have one like him, and probably won't miss the pleasure, he is a handy little lad when it comes to preserving the integrity and unity of that fine old American institution, home-life in New York. From dawn till dusk this knee-pant Trojan wages attrition warfare against the temptations to which his weaker-willed parents are subjected: a sheik-like artist in the case of his portraitgenic mother, and a dove-like matron innocently laying the net for his father. Lily Cahill, la mere; Jay Fassett, le pere, Eddie...
...Singh, an Anglican missionary, was hunting among the pagan jungle tribes of northwest India. At a remote village he heard of a "man-ghost" who lived seven miles away under an old ant hill. Wary of tigers, Singh built a blind near the ant hill, settled down at dusk to watch...
...Lined up around the course like a gigantic keyhole, they watched his familiar blue-clad figure flick down the "inrun" at 50 m.p.h., float past the judges' tower, and glide, arms whirling, into their midst in a perfect landing. His first jump measured 167 ft. In the gathering dusk he took off for his second. This lime he landed on one ski, nearly fell. When the span was measured, a mighty roar went up. Tokle had soared 180 ft., broken a record for the 13th time...
...dusk, with Malta in sight, torpedo planes attacked for the last time. But the Illustrious crowded on speed, and the torpedoes crossed only her wake...