Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...running light is a 21-candlepower light, attached to the grille, that turns on with the ignition. The resulting gleam warns of a car's approach not only at dawn and dusk, when headlights may be off, but also in broad daylight, when the car is in a shadow or blending with the background. Running lights were first used by Greyhound buses, which experimented in 1960 by leaving their headlights on in daylight. In 1962 the practice was made compulsory on all the company's buses, and since then, according to Greyhound figures, accidents have dropped...
...President Kennedy's funeral, many journalists and television men, subordinating their own private feelings, worked long and dedicated hours to describe and to photograph the ceremony. Among them was Ben Martin, one of four photographers we assigned to the coverage. At dusk on Sunday, he photographed the long line of mourners approaching the Capitol; then, not sure whether a dawn crowd might not be better, he was back at sunup...
...began to toll. In Caracas, Venezuela, a lone Marine sergeant strode across the lawn of the U.S. embassy while a soft rain fell, saluted the flag, then lowered it to half-mast. At U.S. bases from Korea to Germany, artillery pieces boomed out every half hour from dawn to dusk in a stately, protracted tattoo of grief...
When the aircraft landed at Andrews at dusk, the MATS terminal was blazing with floodlights. President and Mrs. Johnson waited inside while a yellow cargo lift lumbered out to the plane's rear door. Uniformed pallbearers struggled to shift the heavy casket from the plane to the lift. Robert Kennedy met Jackie at the door, helped her to the ground. Officials motioned Jackie toward a black Cadillac, but she insisted on staying with the casket. She got into a grey military ambulance, refused to sit in front, climbed in back near her husband's body. Bobby joined...
...leadership. One of its few decisions: to abolish the siesta that has traditionally closed government offices for 21 hours each afternoon. Despite the mournful yawns of civil servants, the new decree enables peasants and rural officials to complete their business in the capital earlier and return home safely before dusk, when the Viet Cong start harassing traffic on all the roads radiating from Saigon...