Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Babus & Bonfires. The welcome in the dusk that same day in India, where Ike had gone to fulfill a "cherished wish" and to "do a little bit of personal discovery," was the most stupefying mob scene since the death of Gandhi. It was getting dark as Eisenhower, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and President Rajendra Prasad began the drive from the New Delhi airport into the city. From villages and country valleys and the city itself had come more than a million people, who had heard about the visit from radios, newspapers and village criers. In bullock carts, buses and trucks...
...dusk fell across Ankara, as smoke from thousands of homes laid a foglike pall over the city, Ike's mission moved toward a high point. He rode out of town again to lay a wreath at the Ataturk Mausoleum. There he shed his topcoat in the chill evening air, laid a wreath of white and red carnations, stood with head bowed. So many flashbulbs flashed in his face that he seemed a bit blinded. "Do you mind if I take your arm?" he said to a Turkish official as they walked away...
...variety of barely airworthy small planes, visited scores of river towns, oil and mineral exploration camps, pioneer farms, mines, missionary stations and Indian villages deep in the jungle. Once, to photograph a tribe of Mato Grosso Indians, De Carvalho and Linck hiked nine miles through thick jungle and at dusk hiked out again, preceded by a native guide armed with a flashlight and rifle. At the camp of a seismographic crew, they just missed a battle in which seven Indians were killed during a surprise attack on a geologist...
...Bonaparte's household from ?18,000 to ?8,000. Napoleon promptly had his table silver pounded into a shapeless mass, weighed and sold openly in town. Vindictively Lowe restricted Napoleon to a shadeless plain for horseback riding, and forbade him to enter his own garden after dusk...
...dusk fell over London's White City Stadium last June 10, Harvard's Joel Landau stood at the starting line for the 4 X 110 relay with the failure or success of the Harvard-Yale track team's mission in England hanging upon what he and three other runners did in the next 40-odd seconds. As it turned out, the four determined sprinters--Landau and Frank Yeomans of Harvard and Jay Luck and Jim Carney of Yale--won the final relay and gave the Americans a thrilling 8-7 victory over the combined forces of Oxford and Cambridge...