Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ABRUPTLY, air raid sirens wailed through the dusk. Orderlies trundled Bach Mai's patients into underground shelters, and the bicyclers, strollers and loungers retraced familiar steps to their assigned havens. Missile batteries in the city's outskirts rotated into position, and anti-aircraft crews within the city donned helmets and waited patiently. Some riflemen peered skyward, but their efforts were futile: unlike smaller fighter-bombers, B-52's fly too high to be seen by the naked eye. Most of the people of Hanoi crouched in their shelters; they huddled in the dark and waited...
...Registrar also said that drivers should slow down on Halloween to protect children who may be darting about in dark costumes during dusk or early darkness, especially in residential areas...
Since the peak number of accidents occur during hours of dusk and darkness, the following suggestions are offered in order to avoid collisions...
Rush hour cars move by the river toward the Mass Pike; in Harvard Stadium field lights go on to repel the dusk. On the field, the Crimson varsity continues to work...
...nasty, brutish and short," he says. "Judging from all the clues we have found, man led the good life in the Illinois River valley. He had plenty of leisure time in which to domesticate pets. It's sheer folklore that primitive people had to struggle from dawn to dusk simply to survive." In short, the early Americans of the Illinois River valley, like their modern counterparts, enjoyed a relatively peaceful life and a highly enviable standard of living...