Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vice president of dad's Playboy Enterprises, says she came to the convention from Chicago as an alternate Carter delegate "to lobby for the minority platform on abortion and try to make a difference on women's issues." That is exactly what she did, dawn to dusk and gavel to gavel, while many another delegate was hopping around town. "People who don't know me thought I was here to play," she said, "but I came out of a sense of commitment." Only when it was over did Christie finally cut loose-at Xenon with Presidential Pollster...
From the snorting mimicry of airplane engines at kick-off to lyric invocations of the beauty of the sky at dawn and dusk, Peterson holds his audience in a trance. The most appealing of his acting skills is his ability to endow Bishop with both vulnerable humanity and dare devil courage...
...junta immediately disbanded Congress, imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew and moved rapidly to crush resistance by students and workers, who called for a general strike in protest against the "fascist coup-makers." Tanks and troops also moved into southern towns where some 5,000 armed tin miners were blocking the roads and vowing to fight the coup "until the ultimate consequences." There were ominous signs that the junta had adopted the chilling anti-terrorist tactics pioneered by Argentina's military bosses. As in Argentina, a number of activists simply disappeared after being kidnaped by plain-clothes thugs...
...dozen years ago inmates at Tucker State prison in Arkansas ran the place. Prisoners convicted of murder toted guns, bullied their fellows into the fields at dawn and laughed them back to their cells at dusk. These prisoner/guards--called trusties--beat other inmates with a devilish tool called a strap, a leather slab with a wooden handle that, when handled "properly," can knock a victim six inches into the air. They tortured them by running pins and razor blades along the soft flesh under their fingernails. They gang-raped them in the barred dormitories where each prisoner slept with...
...what was the point? We dispersed at dusk rather than face another eviction, and spent the next day in meetings, too small now to even attempt a blockade. Statement about retaking the antinuclear movement from CDAS and suggestions to put out a press release stressing the success of our true nonviolence could only further split the tiny splinter of the movement that had come to Seabrook. Handbooks might state that we would stay and make repreated attempts until we occupied, but we knew that we were leaving after the weekend. Even if we had taken over, we would have turned...