Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than 30 students began the party in the Boston and Maine box-car. After neighbors complained, police arrived at dusk to find only eight bitter-enders bouncing beer cans on the rails...
After that, Shea and McCombe, denied food all day, were subjected to a series of stumbling interrogations. Just before dusk, two cops piled them into a car and tore across town in a nightmare ride to Station 22. There, Shea and McCombe got food at last-and more grilling. At 1:30 a.m., after 25 hours of examination, the questioning ended. Shea and McCombe were taken to police headquarters...
Captain Wray gave "dig in" orders shortly before dusk. His men scraped through wet sand and mud to frozen hardpan in which they hacked out foxholes...
...room looks like a room a man had decorated. There is not a paper or a letter showing in the pigeonholes of the desk. Until Christmas week, one of the sights of the post was the general and 21-month old Matt Jr. standing together on their porch at dusk, stiff as ramrods, saluting the colors...
...little later, three more, seven miles to the east. Then a Navy float plane, out on a similar mission, found the sea too choppy to take off. The plane reached the Tang with eight more flyers, some straddled on the wings. All day the Tang ferried and fished. At dusk the last two dripping aviators were pulled aboard. Of 46 airmen who hit the water during the two days, 28 were rescued, 22 of them by the Tang...