Word: late-afternoon
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...contestants spent most of each day riding in a good-natured cluster, taking turns sheltering each other from the wind, saving their strength for a late-afternoon sprint. The tour was broken into 21 laps, with overnight and one-day stops between (the cyclist with least total elapsed time is the winner). At frequent intervals, some of them sucked up wine by rubber hose from tankards on their handlebars. Ahead of the racers moved a cavalcade of commercials on wheels; behind came les suiveurs-masseurs, newspapermen, photographers. In some bombed towns, they had to be billeted in prisons and brothels...
While the heavies are engaged at Annapolis, Hert Haines will send his 150. pound boats against the Tech light-weights and Tabor Academy in a late-afternoon informal race here, starting on the Charles River Basin at about 4:30 o'clock...
Dick spent part of the late-afternoon workout conferring with his aides and with Captain Vince Moravec, but then moved on to watch a semi-scrimmage in which line-coach Hal Kopp was pitting his charges against each other in a series of simple plays...
...dreams are made on-fantastic, capricious, inconsecutive, at times nightmarish. Shakespeare's brain begot such villains and monsters as Iachimo in Cymbeline, Caliban in The Tempest, Leontes in The Winter's Tale. But terror and tragedy took shape only to melt away at last in benign late-afternoon sunlight...
...Shrill, scratch-penned Eleanor Jewett of Chicago's America-First Tribune put up a bald landscape of rolling hills and lowering sky, seen through a purplish haze of late-afternoon dusk: The Day Ends by Charles Kilgore...