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...dusk two battalions with their artillery had been completely cut off, and another was in danger. One battalion, sadly thinned, was pulled back from the hills by the Sele. All were grouped in close defensive rings. The 105-mm. guns were turned around, faced the way the regiment had marched the night before. Only 15 rounds remained for each gun, and they were silent...
Furthermore, the offensive against Germany would certainly be renewed and intensified: Fortresses last week made their first after-dusk attacks on France, preparing for the misty days and long winter nights ahead, and it was only a matter of time until a two-way offensive could be mounted from Britain and Italy. But, in the light of recent experience, airmen were no longer willing to measure the success or failure of their campaign by their ability or inability to knock out Germany this year. Their maximum hope, but not their certainty, was that President Roosevelt meant what he said...
From dawn to dusk each day this month good Moslems may not eat, drink, smoke, use perfume, apply leeches, indulge in sex. It is the month of Ramadan, holiest in Islam's year, and conscientious observance of its requirements can atone for a solid year of sinning...
...weatherbeaten Robert Oliver Daniel Sullivan had more than 14,000 hours in his logbook, more than 3,200 of them in Pan Am's great Boeing clippers. But despite his long experience of sea and sky, he could not explain later what happened when he thundered over the dusk-bound estuary of the light-pricked Tagus, what went wrong as he squared away for his landing between the waterborne runway lights...
...Silkworms grow fatter on mulberry leaves picked at dusk. Cattle do better if pastured in late afternoon rather than in the morning...