Word: twilight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stony silence to put the old man under arrest. A Swiss Guard of Honor presented arms. But French troops presented reversed arms (rifle butts upward), a gesture of dishonor. The old Marshal doffed his hat, offered to shake hands with General Koenig. The General stiffly declined. Quietly, in the twilight, Henri Petain boarded a special train for Paris...
...nearly two months, the Varsity has been operating on a seven-day-a-week, rain-or-shine practice schedule and through special permission from the H.A.A., has been able to work out late in the afternoon toward twilight...
...cage home of plaited bamboo and braided palm-fronds on the weatherside beach of a coral lagoon, I commence reading-and on I read from the red hour of sunrise to hot, windless midday, through a breeze-freshened afternoon to a rose and lilac sunset, into the brief purple twilight and, lamp flame at full height, right up to when the Southern Cross is directly overhead at midnight. Day after day, night after night-the schedule never varies...
Last week he lined up a gallery of Pan-European supporters. Among them: Austrian Novelist-Playwright Franz Werfel (The Song of Bernadette, The Twilight of a World, Jacobowski and the Colonel); Fernando de los Rios, onetime Ambassador of Republican Spain in Washington; French Playwright Henry Bernstein; Nellos Camellopoulos, onetime member of the Greek Parliament; Businessman Edouard Müller (Nestlé Chocolate), formerly of Switzerland. Said they: only a continental confederation can "coordinate the common political, economic and military interests of Europe and the personal rights of all Europeans...
...friendly. Larry Whipp glowed with the news that his passport was ready for a holiday trip to the U.S. At 4 p.m. the organist put his grey soft hat on his balding head, picked up his neatly rolled umbrella and walked out into Auteuil's gloomy Sunday twilight. No one has seen hide nor hair of him since...