Word: dusk
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...Jervis Bay closed in, laying a smoke screen as she went, behind which the rest of the convoy scattered into the gathering dusk...
After an hour of this, and lunch, the President drove the Princess round the estate (the Earl had a cold), named all the trees and plants and flowers. At 5 o'clock, as dusk settled over the low Catskills, the five visitors, the President, his mother, Mr. Summerlin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt III, 2, gathered for tea and cocktails. Minute, rompered Franklin Roosevelt III sat on a hassock and ate a cookie like a good boy. His great-grandmother said sadly: "His name is Franklin Delano Roosevelt the Third, but everybody calls him Joe." Joe acted like a little...
...belt of poison night where death strikes at dusk is being studied by Marshall Hertig, assistant professor of medical entomology new in the service of the Peruvian government...
...vast covered pits. From four of them slabs of cement rise and part, and out push anti-aircraft guns. One other is a huge elevator which swallows into the Chancellery's great catacombs anything from a bicycle to a ten-ton tank. Every evening last week, as dusk rubbed out the building's heroic contours, a bus drove up on the sidewalk and disappeared into the ground...
...time was over, dusk was falling in Boston Harbor. The U. S. destroyer Aaron Ward backed out of her pier and headed into the Atlantic. Behind, in a single grey file, trailed the A.P. Upshur and the Hale. Motorists on the Charlestown Bridge and idlers in North End Park honked, cheered, waved. Off for Canada and World War II were the first of 50 destroyers which the U. S. Navy last week gave up to the British...