Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bursting with the pride of nationhood, some 5,000 Israelis kindled the first festive beacon at dusk beside the Judean hilltop grave of Theodor Herzl, founder of Zionism. Then, after a ten-gun salute boomed off Jordan's echoing hills (all heavily reinforced with Arab soldiery), 5,000 crack Israeli warriors took pride of martial place by parading through the City of David with gleaming tanks, guns and armored vehicles, in defiance of the armistice clause that prohibits any large number of troops and weapons within six miles of the Jordanian frontier...
Almost in tears, Georghios Papageorghiou, plump owner of the theater he had spent $123,000 on, begged the British: "Let me carry the bombs out. Someone carried them in. They can't be all that dangerous." But as dusk neared, houses and shops adjoining the theater were cleared, police cordoned off adjoining streets, a siren warned everyone away. At 6:51 p.m., in a sheet of flame and with a blast that rocked Famagusta's old north wall, the British exploded the bombs. The top two stories of the theater's living quarters collapsed, snapping telephone poles...
...torn off and a three-tiered system installed in its place. At the top is a glass covering (cooled by water jets in summer). Beneath are set a series of aluminum louvers automatically regulated by a photoelectric mechanism that opens them to the sky on cloudy days or at dusk, gradually closes them as the sun brightens. (This system is similar to that of the superbly lit Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass.-TIME, May 7, 1956.) The natural light is next deflected by a synthetic-wood barrier-to the side walls of the gallery below, passing...
...traveled by taxi halfway up storied Amagi Mountain. When Aishinkakura was missed, her mother sent police searching for the couple; later she took to the radio to broadcast her promise to permit the marriage. But there are no radios on Amagi Mountain. After wandering in the misty forest until dusk, the lovers took clippings from their hair and fingernails and wrapped them in white paper as mementos for their families. Okubo changed into a new pair of shoes he had bought for the occasion. Pillowing Aishinkakura's head on his left arm, he shot her in the temple, then...
City buses, last barrier against a complete breakdown of municipal transportation in the city, became a new target of strikers during the day. Seven terminals were picketed, but the pickets withdrew at dusk...