Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hunch that the Jap carriers, fed up with heavy daytime losses, would launch an attack at night. With Lieut. Commander Edward H. ("Butch") O'Hare, famed Congressional Medal winner, Radford worked out a radar-equipped night fighter system. When -sure enough-Jap torpedo planes were reported approaching after dusk, O'Hare took off with his bat team. Two of the approaching Japs were splashed (shot down) and the others, disconcerted, turned back. O'Hare never came back from the mission...
...dusk on June 26, 1862, General Robert E. Lee knew that his first major attack had ended in failure. Before him on the fields near Mechanicsville, Va. lay nearly 1,500 Confederate dead and wounded. McClellan's Army of the Potomac (casualties: 256) still stood intact, a menace to Richmond...
...night the Reds attacked steadily from dusk until dawn. "They don't make sense," said Davis. "We kill 'em and kill 'em and they still keep coming. We captured one that night and he was drunk. They must all be drunk...
...There is no word for "zombie" in Russian. Quick-witted U.N. interpreters hit on pravitelstvo mertvykh dusk, or dead-souls' government, a phrase inspired by Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls...
These large, economy-size emotions are packaged in purple dialogue and strenuously oversold by Director Anthony (Winchester '73) Mann. To satisfy his enthusiasm for arty, heavily filtered photography, virtually all the outdoor scenes take place in the murky half-light of dawn or dusk, to the point where the movie seems to suggest that the sun never really shone in the old Southwest. Except for a gusty, artful performance by Actor Huston-the last before his death in April-The Furies is notable only as a sample of what Zane Grey might have done if he had tried...