Word: sunsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then right after sunset Monday the incredible happened again. San Francisco had a blackout, and the Army announced that two squadrons of 15 enemy planes each from a carrier off the coast had flown inland over California soil near San Jose. One squadron flew south and vanished, the second flew northward past San Francisco and Mare Island...
...York City's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia is guest-conducting the National Symphony at its final sunset concert in Washington this week. His responsibilities: two Sousa marches and the Star-Spangled Banner. His father was an Army band leader...
...water from the filter plant (capacity: 1,000,000 gallons a day) near Riverside to the reservoirs of Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Long Beach, Santa Ana, nine other cities. As the sweet waters of the far-off Colorado slowly welled up last week into a subterranean chamber supplying Sunset Reservoir, Pasadena became the first community in the system to get the District's water...
Next job was a landing party exercise. The newfangled combat teams (chief components: infantry and artillery) were piled on to the big transports and the attack forces (secret in arms and organization) loaded on the speedy ex-destroyers. One sunset the whole fleet sailed over the horizon. At dawn it was seizing a beach head on another Caribbean island. The First was gone a month on its full-scale exercise. Units of the Atlantic Fleet worked with them. Admiral Ernest Joseph King looked his approval as the landing parties were called away and the bronzed, hornyhanded sea soldiers went over...
...declining years, while World War I hammered at the gates of Paris, white-bearded old Renoir lived on a farm in the south of France. He was nearly paralyzed with arthritis, but with paintbrushes lashed to his gnarled hands, he still painted his sunset-colored nudes, still kept a temper as sunny as a boy's. When an irate admirer appeared with a forged Renoir, suggesting that the old man should sue the forger, Renoir merely painted the forgery over, made it into a genuine Renoir...