Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bans several major sources of street noise, such as cars honking horns and stores using outdoor loudspeakers. One especially controversial provision forbids construction between dusk and dawn; another demands that pet owners hush obstreperous dogs, cats and parrots. But the code's real importance lies in setting strict, quantifiable limits on the most offensive and easily controlled city sounds: the cacophony of machinery. The limits are measured in decibels on a logarithmic scale that runs from the threshold of hearing (1) through the level of hearing impairment (85 db, if continuous) to that of acute pain...
There was none of that. There were no ranks of golf bags standing in the hotel lobbies; instead, the tennis courts were crowded from sunup till dusk. The parties were few and saw little determined boozing but a lot of quiet talk in corners and a bit of freeloading by young delegates short of cash. Party leaders sweeping down Collins Avenue in their rented air-conditioned limousines could pass up a sandaled, T-shirted hitchhiker only at their peril; they never knew whether he might be a key delegate. The violent tradition of Chicago was dead; the encampment of protesters...
...traveled the Amazon. "I had been warned about his pace," says Anderson, who is 29. "But I still wasn't ready for it. He worked constantly except for catnaps, and after a while I couldn't believe he was 30 years older than I." After dawn-to-dusk days in search of real estate, Wilson spent evenings in search of lighted tennis courts so he and his aides could squeeze in a set or two before bedtime. One 18-hour stretch of land hunting ended at the Tenis Clube Do Para in Belém, Brazil, where Anderson...
...radioed alert that his plane had been commandeered rang top-level alarms in Israel. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and Chief of Staff General David Elazar hurried to the airport to supervise the troops mustered to meet the jet. As soon as Levy touched down in the Tel Aviv dusk and rolled to an isolated runway, mechanics at Dayan's orders immobilized the plane by deflating its tires and draining the hydraulic system...
...Texas. Toward dusk the wind picked up and the skies around the ranch rattled with thunder-not from rain, but from the engines of executive jets that put down on the ranch's 4,100-ft. landing strip. On the spacious lawn in front of the Connallys' elegant two-story ranch house, workmen put the finishing touches on baskets of Texas wild flowers hung from the limbs of live oak trees. Bouquets of chrysanthemums floated in the 40-ft. swimming pool behind the house. Cooks hovered over charcoal broilers, tending to some 200 lbs. of home-grown beef...