Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dusk deepened, the woman did not turn on the light but sat looking at the television screen. Their set had a special channel for watching the colony playground. The silent black-and-white image revealed her son balancing himself on a tree trunk, while his fat friend kept falling off; except for the two of them, the playground was forsaken. The woman's eyes glistened with tears...
...game just after dispensing with his swaddling clothes, wielding a sawed-off set of clubs handed to him by his father at the tender age of six. By the age of 13, he was heading out to the golf course early in the morning only returning at dusk after a fruitful day spent "hustling all the little kids...
...members of his family−four brothers, three uncles and three cousins. Friends and relatives consoled each other as Red Cross workers called out the victims' names. A young pregnant woman, waiting to identify her husband's body, sobbed on her mother's shoulder. At dusk, small groups of workers and relatives gathered solemnly outside the chain-link fence surrounding the piles of rubble at the tower's base. Near the tangled mass of steel stood a faded sign: MAKE SAFETY A BELL-RINGER THIS YEAR...
Outdoor tennis courts will be open from 8 a.m. until dusk seven days a week...
Irion worked on a railroad crew in Billings for three summers. Wielding a sledge hammer from dusk to dawn, he packed on extra muscle for battling under the boards for rebounds. Irion's father, who got him the job, worked for the Milwaukee Railroad Company before becoming a government railway inspector. Most of Irion's co-workers were illegal aliens from Mexico known as "wetbacks" because they "swim" the Rio Grande to get to Montana...