Word: dusk
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...Dusk in a glittering ring...
Creeping Crickets. Twice a day, usually in early afternoon and again at dusk, the warm monsoon rains patter down. The paddies of the delta are already flooded ankle-deep. Plodding patiently across them, in a tableau ancient as the land itself, peasants in conical hats and mud-caked pants thrust pale green rice shoots into the fertile soil beneath the water. And in the humid dusk, countless crickets sing out-or get themselves captured by small boys who sell them to gambling elders for cricket fights...
...Wolves out of their mountain redoubts, 120 British paratroopers attacked the mud-walled town of El Naqiil at dawn with fixed bayonets. The rebels scampered up the slopes, dug in, and with deadly sniper fire pinned the paratroopers to the ground in shimmering heat. Twelve hours later, at dusk, the British finally broke out of the trap and routed the rebels, killing twelve. Two Britons died...
...visit to Moscow last year when she publicly denounced India's agreement to accept a Voice of America transmitter, aggravating a controversy that finally forced Nehru to renege on the deal. But Indira took a strong stand against the Red Chinese invasion and spent days, from dawn to dusk, in airplanes surveying the front...
...Harvard's heavyweight crews had any serious difficulty winning by wide margins. Coach Harry Parker's varsity capped the afternoon sweep at dusk with a four-and-a-half-length win over Brown and Rutgers just after a six-length victory...