Word: sunsetted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...death over Saudi radio. "Our love for him compels us to continue his march, pursue his hopes and complete his plans," he said. In accordance with Islamic law and Saudi custom, Khalid's body was wrapped in a brown shroud and buried in an unmarked grave before sunset on the day he died...
Each Sunday evening at 9, Rios Montt appears on national television to deliver a spiritual talk. The program be gins with a picture of a sunset over famed Lake Atitlán, followed by Rios Montt in civilian clothes standing in a garden filled with trees and chirping birds. "Good evening," he begins typically. "I sincerely thank you for the opportunity that you give me to be with you tonight. It cannot be any other way." Some Guatemalans, as a result, call their President "the maid" because, like household maids, he comes out on Sunday...
...Court. "He was just walking down Hollywood Boulevard. And I saw Joan Blondell coming out of one of those fancy shops. I was at the age when I was sort of movie-struck, you know. I was collecting autographs. There used to be a beauty salon-it was on Sunset. I remember seeing Dick Powell pull up in one of those Cord automobiles. It was quite a place, Hollywood...
...places along the boulevard, the sun's slanting rays silhouette the remaining palms. And in the familiar salmon glow of a Western sunset, one can almost see a jaunty Charlie Chaplin, high-stepping up the boulevard, on his way, perhaps, to the ballroom of the Garden Court...
...hears already the night sounds of autumn: slide projectors clicking in the dark to punctuate a drone of travelogue. The oppressed audience writhes and dozes and works its eyes open and shut like jalousies. Etna will be seen in a bleeding, theatrical sunset. The Acropolis will be out of focus, Dorothy sharp in the foreground. Here is Carl squirting himself with a wineskin at Pamplona. Retired professors (triumphs of evolution) will stand over Galapagos turtles, grinning like Teddy Roosevelt after a kill. In some former slave-driving colony of the Caribbean, Dwayne will lounge by the pool wearing his Club...