Word: sundown
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Sacred Ponds. In India, which the shadow reached just before sundown, came a kind of climax. For hours before the eclipse, orthodox Hindus had fasted, lest the food in their stomachs be polluted before it could be digested. Pregnant women hid in dark closets. At the sacred ponds of Kurukshetra and Sanyahet, near Delhi, waited 500,000 pilgrims who believed that during a solar eclipse all the sacred rivers of the world would flow into the two ponds, and that to bathe in them at that time would purge the soul of all sins. Since both the ponds were nearly...
...serves him well in enforcing the law, with only one deputy, over 3,800 square miles. Notified that Wilson had not returned, he went to the spot where the car had stood. From there he followed two sets of men's tracks, leading into the hills. Just before sundown he found Wilson's bullet-torn body. The tracks indicated that the two men had walked side by side until they came to the gully. Then one had dropped behind about twelve feet. This man, it seemed, had shot Wilson and not even walked forward to examine the body...
...flight back from the Foreign Ministers' conference in Berlin, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles stopped off in Bermuda long enough to flex his muscles in a quick swim. Two hours later he was airborne again, and at sundown, one windy day last week, he landed at Washington's National Airport for a routine welcome home. There was a whispered briefing from Under Secretary Bedell Smith, a kiss from Dulles' sister, an ambassadorial handshake from France, Britain and West Germany. Then Dulles headed for his office to map a campaign on the issue that was suddenly blowing...
...more mileage per car and more multiple-car families ... I will leave it to your imagination to think of what it means in terms of automotive home workshops, sporting goods, lawnmowers, garden tools, casual clothing . . . Furthermore, this suburbia is pointing the way to the next development, which is .the sundown farmer and his demand for the small power tractor with its many pieces of ingenious extra equipment...
...Sundowner's Tractor. A three-wheel tractor designed especially for the nation's estimated 2,000,000 "sundown farmers," who work at regular jobs during the day and farm small plots in the evening, was put on sale by Sears, Roebuck. Powered with a 6-h.p. gasoline engine, the tractor can pull any of a dozen attachments for crop work, lawnmowing and snow removal. Price without attachments...