Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dusk he sat a-smiling, Smiling there alone...
...after day from dawn to dusk the procession wound through the mountains. A day's march ahead were the old, the women and the smart young Querétaro lawyers who arranged for overnight billeting of the aged and the very important. Among these last was Querétaro's Father Sebastian Berumen. Thin and steelyeyed, he marched in straw sun helmet and knee-length gabardine coat to cover the cassock that by law he is forbidden to wear in public. With him walked his chief aides: Tranquilino González, president of Querétaro...
...friendship with love . . . Avoid physical contact with the opposite sex . . . Use straightforward, refined, beautiful language . . . When visiting one of the opposite sex, you must sit facing each other. It is not good etiquette to sit alongside each other when there is room to sit opposite . . . Refrain from walking after dusk with one of the opposite sex . . . Refrain from bringing up unrefined topics in conversation . . . Always make clear your intentions...
Almost every 15 minutes from dawn to dusk a DC-3 takes off from or lands at Honolulu Airport for a flight around the islands. Businessmen fly from one island to another for lunch; housewives fly into Honolulu to shop; planters commute by air between farms and cities. Islanders call Hawaiian Airlines, Ltd. the "trolley line." Next week Hawaiian Airlines, with two more DC-3s added to its fleet of eight, will step up its flights from...
...that the soldiers might use her as a gangway to the numerous ships that could not enter shallow water. In one day, 3,000 men walked to safety over Oriole; and Skipper Davies, having proved his hunch, radioed defiantly to the Admiralty: "[Have] deliberately grounded ... on own initiative . . . Refloated dusk same day . . . Am again proceeding Belgian coast and will again run aground if such course seems desirable." The Admiralty "fully approved...