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Word: dusk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shoppers hurried home at dusk, they were startled to see two young men, aged 18 and 19, being marched through Belfast's Falls Road slum, heavily populated by Catholics. A group of angry members of the I.R.A. (the outlawed Irish Republican Army) tied the two boys to a lamppost and poured cold tar varnish and feathers over their shaved heads. Placards tied around the victims' necks proclaimed; "This man has been found guilty and confessed to breaking and entering. This sentence has been passed by the Republican movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: Return to Tar and Feathers | 1/25/1971 | See Source »

...virtual slave plantation in the 20th century. Cummins takes all kinds of errants and turns them into white-clad "rankers" who work or perish. Toiling from dawn to dusk, they move in a long line across the fields, supervised by a horseman in khaki and five unmounted "shotguns" (guards) who "push" the serfs along. At each corner of the field stands another guard, armed with a high-powered rifle. All the guards are convicts, the toughest at Cummins. Hated by rankers, the trusties are picked for meanness in order to keep them alive off duty. They are killers, armed robbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Shame of the Prisons | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

...party was by the sweeping nature of the revolt, as did Gierek's initial, conciliatory moves. He ended the state of emergency, under which police and the army had been sent into the riot zones along the Baltic seacoast with orders to shoot to kill. As cities quieted, dusk-to-dawn curfews were lifted in time for pious Poles to attend Christmas Eve midnight Mass. Air, road and telephone services were restored, breaking the cocoon of isolation that Gomulka had imposed to limit the demonstrations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Poland's New Regime: Gifts and Promises | 1/4/1971 | See Source »

Meanwhile, army tanks rumbled into the city and police bombed demonstrators with tear gas from helicopters hovering overhead. Blaming "hooligans" and "rowdies" for the disorders, Radio Gdansk interrupted regular programming to announce a dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed by the Presidium of the Provincial Council; public gatherings were also banned. In addition, the Presidium appealed to "civic consciousness to guarantee peace in our town." It warned that it would utilize "all means" to restore order and told militiamen to shoot to kill. Despite the tough measures-and Warsaw's initial effort to keep silent about the protests-word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Poland: A Nation in Ominous Flames | 12/28/1970 | See Source »

...mental home. There are no acute aberrations. The place is no nuttier than the world, or life. Richardson and Gielgud are two men who stand on the crumbling threshold of old age, all passion spent, memories distant but present, vivid yet garbled. For them, every dawn is dusk, and every dusk is darkened with the knowledge of imminent death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Duet of Dynasts | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

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