Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state of emergency. Thousands of steel-helmeted soldiers in full battle kit ringed the city while rifle-toting security cops raced from house to house in search of arms and explosives. By day, reconnoitering army helicopters whirred at treetop level. At night, the city was stilled by a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Censorship was clamped on outgoing dispatches. So grave was the situation that a long-scheduled visit by India's Prime Minister Nehru was called off for the humiliating reason that Ghanaian police could not guarantee his safety...
...Angeles between dusk and dawn, the portrait of a city through the night...
...muggy, midsummer Washington, Summer Bachelor John Kennedy worked early and late on the problems of state, arriving in his office well ahead of his staff and retiring to the deserted White House at dusk with sheaves of work under his arm. After 18 months in the presidency, during which he has suffered as many downs as ups, the President these days looks cool, controlled and relaxed. Those who see him regularly think he has tempered his anguish at being unable to remake the nation, or to win over Harry Byrd, overnight. But they report him far from resigned...
...week continued his weekend jaunts to Cape Cod, where he joined in a family celebration of Jackie's 33rd birthday. Otherwise, most of the time at the Cape is devoted to the Kennedys' own Little Olympics. Rain or shine, the unbroken pace goes on from dawn until dusk. The first Kennedy swim of the day on weekends is likely to be at 7 a.m., preceded by a run of a mile or so up the beach. Since sitting down is somehow considered bad form, touch football fills in the "rest periods" between tennis, swimming, waterskiing, sailing and "dragging...
Last week the lads at the first Outward Bound School in the Western Hemisphere were extracting what enjoyment they could from a dawn-to-dusk schedule of running, rope climbing, weightlifting, marathon hiking, survival camping, and icy dips in mountain streams. It was a 26-day test of spirit, stamina and sacrifice, aimed at finding the kind of challenge that would be William James's "moral equivalent...