Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense of strain and anxiety lingered ominously. Banks and government offices were open, but workers and shoppers who normally thronged the downtown streets of Nairobi (pop. about 970,000) were rushing for home by midafternoon to observe a dusk-to-dawn curfew, leaving the city center a ghost town. Blocks of shops in the downtown area were boarded up, concealing the shattered windows and vacant shelves left behind by an orgy of looting. Occasionally, sprawled corpses could be seen on city streets, evidence that a tough government crackdown was still in progress in one of black Africa's most...
...latest negotiations followed the most intensive artillery battle that Beirut has suffered throughout the war. Lebanese authorities estimated that just before the latest cease-fire took effect, 20 to 30 shells a minute were raining down on West Beirut and its suburbs. From dawn to dusk Israeli gunboats and hilltop artillery traded fire with Palestinian fighters perched on trucks mounted with Katyusha rocket launchers. The P.L.O.'s hit-and-run tactics proved more effective than in previous skirmishes. According to P.L.O. officials, some 25 Israeli vehicles were destroyed by P.L.O. rockets. The Presidential Palace in Baabda...
...battle dress alertly stood guard. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein last week invited Time Inc. Senior Editor Murray J. Gart and TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis there for a rare formal interview, the first given to U.S. journalists in a year. Looking very fit despite the effects of a dawn-to-dusk fast in observance of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the Iraqi leader was a commanding presence in his field marshal's uniform as he discussed for two hours the tumult in the Middle East and his country's future. Excerpts...
...Families and groups of youths came with picnic baskets. To soccer-style chants and crescendos of applause, the Popemobile-a custom-made, bulletproof vehicle-rolled up and down aisles carrying the Pope high over the crowds. At Communion time the multitude adopted a respectful silence. By the time dusk had fallen, John Paul was being serenaded by the audience to the familiar strains of Auld Lang Syne. Michael Goodwillie, an unemployed young man who had waited through the night in the Glasgow park with his pregnant wife Mary, reflected on the unexpected crowd response. "He doesn't hate anyone...
...where you can go down 5 ft. and have a fine dry foxhole. One British correspondent wrote that his most vivid memory of the first 48 hours was "the digging, the terrible digging. From the moment that we reached the company positions, every man dug ceaselessly, from dawn to dusk and into the night again, interrupted only by the constant air-raid warnings. But deep dugouts make troops almost immune to all but direct hits, and deep dugouts we have dug." Another correspondent was given a piece of corrugated iron by a friendly Falklander to cover his foxhole, along with...