Word: sundowned
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...looks redder at sundown than at noon because its light traverses a thicker layer of air at evening and is scattered by more particles in the atmosphere. The light lost by scattering reappears as the blue of the sky. It exactly compensates for the redness of direct sunlight...
...children that a lie does not count if you cross your fingers, or that if your nose itches you will have company, 'or kiss a fool. But Teachers College provides such grave analyses as this, concerning the theory that a snake's tail does not die until sundown: "This may seem true to an individual who is not a keen observer, and his observation may even support his belief. Many of the lower animals do not die instantly as a result of severe injuries. A snake's tail may remain alive for several hours after...
...sundown one day last week the U. S. S. Akron cast off from her stub mast at the Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, N. J., floated silently and moodily into a cheerless sky. One after another the eight engines were started. Then Commander Frank C. McCord bent a course eastward to sea; the 70 officers and crew settled down to one more of the Akron's routine training flights. This one was to be most casual-a two-day cruise off the New England coast for calibration of the ship's radio compass; a trifling job compared...
...half-dozen little Kansas towns, just before each sundown last week, a great melancholy voice was heard wailing sad cowboy songs through the ochre twilight. Citizens investigating the cause of this portent, successively at Liberal, Coldwater, Salina, Herington, discovered a strange motorcade called "Ammunition Train No. I." The sides of a motor van had been let down to form a speaking platform. Generators supplied current for a battery of lights and enough power to send the cowboy songster's voice twanging out over a quarter-mile radius. Parked nearby was a golden brown, 16-cylinder Cadillac. Kansans whose first...
...while the General had his siesta. When he awoke he learned that the second meeting had ended without a decision because Radical Socialist members had threatened to resign if the sentence were commuted. General Sanjurjo ordered a vermouth as the cabinet went into a third session. Three hours before sundown Premier Azana announced to the Cortes that the cabinet had asked President Niceto Alcala Zamora to commute the sentence to life imprisonment, that the President had signed the papers. Rightist deputies cheered, those of the Left hissed. There were half a dozen fist fights. Big-jowled General Sanjurjo grinned, ordered...