Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dusk the British bombers began to thunder in from the east. Out in the desert the Australians lay hidden with their tanks. Offshore the main body of the Mediterranean Fleet was steaming into position...
Last week a new comet hove into naked-eye view-that is, into the view of people with good eyes. Most observers found it better to look at through 8-power binoculars. A faint feather, the comet is crawling down the western sky, after dusk, toward the constellation of the Eagle (Aquila). It will get brighter this week and next. Toward the middle of January, if it develops as astronomers hope, Cunningham's comet should be the brightest since Halley's great comet...
...luxury. Many will die of influenza, pneumonia, tuberculosis, typhus or cholera. Of Europe's 525,000,000 people, some millions, probably never to be counted, will starve. In this second year of World War II Europe will live in the Dark Ages: in bleak despair from dawn to dusk, in blackness from dusk to dawn...
...Jervis Bay closed in, laying a smoke screen as she went, behind which the rest of the convoy scattered into the gathering dusk...
...Hanover, N. H., an inspired Dartmouth team that had lost more games than it had won this year kept mighty Cornell away from its goal line until three seconds before the final gun. Then, in the snowy dusk, a beautifully timed forward pass gave Cornell the game, 7-10-3. Later, after viewing moving pictures of the game. Referee W. H. Friesell admitted that the winning touchdown was made on an illegal fifth down. Cornell's Athletic Director James Lynah promptly relinquished claim to victory, conceded the game to Dartmouth...