Word: dusk
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...back to school, depending on whether the book has come to the end of a chapter or one of its five sections. As a result, there is little thinking about such ideas or about anything else. Nor are there any lasting reactions to scenes of potential beauty, be they dusk in the California grape-growing country or dawn in the streets of San Francisco...
...Moonwatch teams have been alerted to watch at dawn and dusk for a "rumored" new Russian satellite to be launched on next Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory announced yesterday...
...something longer, headier, woozier-such as the tale of a small Dylan accompanying a busload of revelers on a daylong ride from one pub to another, till "dusk came down warm and gentle on thirty wild, wet, pickled, splashing men without a care in the world at the end of the world in the West of Wales"-that Williams gathers more momentum and garners a real harvest of laughs...
...satellite passes over the U.S. either in broad daylight or at night. In daytime the 23-in. sphere, more than 500 miles away, is invisible against the glare of the sun. At night it is invisible because it is in the shadow of the earth. Only at dawn or dusk, when the satellite is in sunlight against a background of fairly dark sky, can it be seen...
...dusk sifted last week around the bleak brick flats that have replaced the even bleaker dockside slums of London's East End, tired factory workers settling down for another evening in front of the telly were roused by a clangorous racket. Peering into the almost-deserted, cement-paved play area of Boyce Way, they made out a brown-robed, sturdily striding figure swinging a schoolbell and shouting: "Come to the play on a cart...