Word: sundown
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...Trick. At sundown the regiment set off. As the soldiers trudged through a moonlit town, a civilian in a long coat gestured and jabbered something about Germans. The soldiers paid no attention. But they remembered later...
...Prisoners get a diet mostly of peas, beans and syrup, work sunup to sundown on road gangs, know they will be beaten if they ever slow up under...
...holding force of blissfully happy U.S. troops. Venereal disease is unknown among the natives; the major commanding the force saw to it that only healthy soldiers went ashore. Life is pleasant, with plenty of tropical fruits and vegetables; wild pigs occasionally provide fresh meat. Love is taboo until after sundown, then the unattached girls doff their tapa-cloth shirts, shake out their grass skirts and smile fondly about them...
...time of German forbearance with Danish "stubbornness" was over; German military courts would deal summarily with offenders. General Hermann von Hanneken, Commander in Chief of German troops in Denmark, made the rules. He announced: 1) gatherings of more than five were prohibited; 2) curfew would begin at sundown; 3) use of telephones, telegraphs and mails were prohibited; 4) strikes were prohibited; 5) troops would fire on offenders without further warning...
Acting District Attorney, after a week of sharply increased mugging assaults: "The fear of law-abiding people ... has become so great that many will not leave their homes after sundown." To put down this latest outbreak of juvenile delinquency (most muggings are committed by Negro adolescents whose behavior is perhaps more regretted in Harlem than anywhere else) New York's Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine added 1,000 policemen to the forces already patrolling the infected areas, hoping to clean up the epidemic...