Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...DUSK OF DAWN-W. E. B. Du Bois-Harcourt, Brace...
...approached, Britain's Over-Seas League planned a monster Aug. 15 tea party in London for His Majesty's forces from overseas. Before the week was out Britons were certain that Adolf Hitler had decided to crash the party. Huge German air assaults lasting from dawn to dusk began; 400 or 500 Nazi raiders came over Britain every day; no hour was without its dogfight. Finally, after holding it back for several hours, the British censor released a dispatch reporting that heavy explosions, believed to be caused by shells, not bombs, had occurred on the southeast coast-presumably...
...dusk, skunks often form in a circle for a dance, their noses touch, then they prance backwards into position again. This often goes on ten or twelve times with perfect rhythm until suddenly the skunks disperse, well satisfied...
...half-mile dirt tracks. In 1921, when he was a successful building contractor, he won his first auto race-on a $250 bet that he could drive his Nash from Blackfoot, Idaho to Salt Lake City and back (at that time a four-day auto trip) between dawn and dusk...
Black rainy clouds hung low over Philadelphia; Sunday afternoon was one long twilight that deepened steadily into gloomy night. In the gathering dusk, over the city's brick-paved streets jounced cabs from the three-day-old airport, from the dismal cavern of old Broad Street Station. Packed in the cabs were thousands of men whose minds were as wind-tossed and gloomy as the night...