Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the Inland Waterway, the Miru hauled out to sea, out in through the Cape Cod Canal, and five months after leaving Wellington, stood off Boston Harbor at dusk on November 2. It was night when she reached the Upper Harbor; her New Zealand flag, tattered and discolored, was unrecognizable. A dimunitive police boat greeted Miru, and escorted her to her temporary berth on the Charles...
Election Day. From New York to San Diego volunteer baby-sitters offered their services to voting mothers. Thousands in St. Louis turned on their porch lights as dusk fell to remind the laggards of their duty...
Last week, not long after Caracas' brief dusk, Ruiz Pineda, now 36, was riding in a green Chevrolet through an area of garages, bars and small factories on the city's southern edge. Somehow, Pedro Estrada's men had been tipped off about Ruiz Pineda's route. Two police agents on a motorcycle picked up the Chevrolet. The car stopped and Ruiz Pineda and three others jumped out. The fleeing men and the police exchanged half a dozen shots. One man fell. By the time a crowd had gathered, Ruiz Pineda, his luck...
...family and a crew of predatory bachelors. To keep them out of what he called his "flower garden," the latter-day Solomon ladled out rum to Ross's men, penned his women in a stockade on another island, and kept them busy husking coconuts from dawn to dusk...
...dusk fell next day, 200 troopers, carrying wicker shields to ward off sticks and stones, marched into Serowe. Some had fixed bayonets, others heavy pick handles. Colonel Langley himself carried a sawed-off shotgun. This time the cops were rougher. They stormed into mud huts, boxed their occupants' ears, beat up all who resisted a search for beer and weapons. By nightfall, 41 Bamangwato, including four royal princes, were penned in a stockade near Batho...