Word: dusk
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...Dusk came early. When the grey day darkened, the infantrymen and tanks had crunched over the first two lines of deep German defenses. Parts of these lines had melted away in the storm of fire. The Russians told of trenches "piled high" with German dead. Where Germans had lived through the storm the Russians found them stunned...
...Germans had erected in five months of quiet. A wide belt of mines protected it, and along it were earthworks and pillboxed guns-25 to 40 of them to each mile. The Katushas and guns spoke again. Flamethrowers spat at the strong points until their timbered linings blazed. By dusk on Saturday Marshal Konev knew that he had what he wanted: a definite break through the deep German line...
...allowed to remain. So I decided to ask for volunteers. ... I had a lump in my throat at the hands which went up before the words were scarcely out of my mouth, and at the cries of 'Please let me stay!' ... As our trucks pulled away at dusk, it was the saddest day in my 32 months in the Army...
...golden rooms were the firelit caves of men in the vast darkness of prehistoric night. When Harg discovered that by rubbing two sticks together he could make fire, he rose to his feet, trembling, and slipped away into the dusk. He thought: "You are the only one in the world who can make fire...
...After. We went down roads along which we had advanced to the tune of cheers and applause three months before, but now there were not many people about and they no longer looked ecstatically happy, but only glum. Many, however, gave us the V sign and waved bravely. At dusk we came to a city. The buzz of the robombs was loud and clear over the hubbub of the traffic, and we saw a trail of red fire coming across the grey sky on the darkened city. It fell with a loud clatter and flames shot up and people...