Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spot. Lennie and the boys weren't the only ones willing to sweat for their music. The audience started arriving to stake out the best spots at 9 a.m. on the day of the concert, first in New York City's free park-concert series, and by dusk something like 90,000 people had spread blankets and set up camp chairs around the park's Sheep Meadow. It was possibly the biggest crowd ever to attend a symphony concert, and it listened enraptured as Beethoven's Eroica and Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps filled...
...C.l.D.G. (Civilian Irregular Defense Group), more than a regiment of Red troops positioned itself around a bloodied battalion of U.S. 101st Airborne troopers probing the district of Tuy Hoa as part of Operation Nathan Hale. Communist Company Commander 1st Lieut. Lu Due Thung, 35, was sent out after dusk to "find and fix the weak American force," as he later told his captors, then report back so that the Reds could launch a massive attack on the 101st the next night...
...legs do not walk but must be lifted, that an old man's hands twitch vagrantly like an infant's in sleep, that an old man's eyes sometimes glow like blown embers and sometimes fade out as swiftly and secretly as dusk. Yet within this fraying husk of age, the man from Hannibal stands vibrantly whole, incorrigibly acute, a genius of uncommon sense...
...riot flares sputtered in the dusk...
...greater question, of course, was what Soviet science learned from the two probes. Very little is known about Venus. Second only to Mercury in nearness to the sun, its bright reflection makes it the last star to fade at dawn, the first to appear at dusk. In size, it just about equals Earth, and like Earth, it possesses an atmosphere. For years, scientists have speculated that life might exist on Venus. But the U.S.'s Mariner II, passing within 21,600 miles of the planet in 1962, radioed back data indicating that Venus' surface was dry, dead...