Word: dusk
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...golf course since 15" in Santander, Spain. At 16, Seve turned professional, a handsome boy with a wild talent. His early dedication extended to playing late after dark, an advantage at Augusta this year when a day and a half of rain kept the golfers out past dusk on Saturday, trying to complete the second round in hopes of cramming the last 36 holes into a marathon Sunday. To Arnold Palmer's relief, they did not quite make it, and the tournament was prolonged...
Magpie to mopoke: diurnal and nocturnal Australian birds; hence, "dawn to dusk...
...Julieann had been away from home only a few hours when, at night in a driving rainstorm, she jumped out of her pen and over perhaps a dozen fences, crossed swamps and pastures and even swam across the Econlockhatchee River. Last Monday at dusk, 100 Ibs. lighter, she arrived back at Kraftsow's. "An incredible journey," says Kraftsow...
...check the driver's identity papers. Suddenly a squad of armed customs agents bursts from a nearby hut. The driver guns the engine and slams through the barricade. The agents open fire. The truck swerves to a stop. Four men leap out and escape into the gathering dusk. The agents, led by a 39-year-old Pathan tribesman named Jehangir Khan, are only perfunctory in their pursuit. They are more interested in the truck's cargo: 421 kilos of heroin, worth $250 million uncut and up to $1 billion on the streets of Western Europe...
...highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing. But in those brevities just before dawn and a little after dusk--times neither night nor day--the old roads return to the sky some of its color. Then, in truth, they carry a mysterious cast of blue, and it's that time when the pull of the blue highway is strongest, when the open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself. preface to Blue Highways...