Word: sundowners
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This week's eclipse touched almost no land at all. Starting in the open sea at sunrise, it darkened the tiny specks of the Phoenix Islands shortly after 8 a. m., then the shadow rolled on across the sea, stabbing into Peru just before it ended at sundown. In the Phoenix Islands totality lasted 3 min. 35 sec. In Peru, where it lasted 3 min. 24 sec., the sun was only 8° above the horizon during totality and its darkened image was distorted by late afternoon haze. Nevertheless eclipses offer such fine opportunities to scientists to study...
...warm, balmy afternoon--for though it rained in the morning, the sun poked through the showers about noon and there wasn't another drop of rain until after the last crew race had been finished at sundown...
...spend three week ends in jail: "This law is to be used only when the court feels a straight sentence endangers a man's job. His family does not suffer, he is only deprived of his valued leisure time." Repairman Thomas' jail week ends will run from sundown Saturday until sundown Sunday...
...recalled to his mind the stories he had heard around village fires of a mighty bird that once roamed the island. Wrapping the prize in his loincloth, he ran with it to the chief of his village. Word of the find sped from hut to drowsy hut, and after sundown the natives jubilantly shouted and danced the war dance which they call the berida...
...others who handle junk or second-hand goods must register every purchase and sale that they make each day in a book. This book must be open for inspection by the police at any time, and a daily report on its content be submitted to the authorities at sundown...