Word: sundowners
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Only a few returned. Before sundown, the men fought over life jackets, as their own lost buoyancy from long immersion. No one dared to sleep, for fear his jacket would be ripped from him. A Catholic chaplain tried to stop the fighting, swimming from one group of men to another. He died of exhaustion; 25 others died from the fighting...
...compartments, by concussion, by electrocution, by hanging, by asphyxiation. Their shipmates cut away the wreckage to get at hundreds of bodies, hauled them out and consigned them to the sea. The stench of death pervaded the passageways. Weeks later parts of men were still being discovered. From sunup to sundown, to save them from insanity, Gehres drove his crew...
...Amiable, grey-haired Frances ("Fannie") Bryson of the New Orleans Item selected Our Daily Bread, a heavily stylized landscape of Deep South farmland at sundown, replete with wheeling buzzards and eroding soil. The artist: Mississippian John McCrady...
...have been in a jungle area for almost a year. . . . Compared to our "unacclimated" American boys, the natives have proportionally much more malaria for lack of clothing after sundown; more ringworm and other foot diseases because they go barefoot; and are more susceptible to tuberculosis, pneumonia, and other diseases because of improper nutrition...
Well up the Rhone valley toward Lyons, a U.S. motorized cavalry reconnaissance troop, feeling the way for the main body, was stopped before a German resistance pocket. After sundown, TIME Correspondent John Osborne dropped in at the troop's farmhouse command post, saw the following little scene in the great drama...