Word: twilight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jacob and other distinguished prisoners of the Germans to Japan by submarine. There they would be held as hostages in case Allied threats to bring Nazi war criminals to trial meant business. Behind these schemes stirred the shadow of the Feme, once more emerging from the twilight...
...long-awaited Year Books one of the most novel and worthy ideas other than the concensus that Berna Tool oughta bagga head of the past six months has been suggested by the Battalion idea-man, and bride-groom-to-be, Jock Brunner. Jock proposes that when the long twilight of senility and retirement descends upon our new effervescent lives and we look not to the future, but back upon our glorious past, we will, as is customary, hearken back to the days we spent here at Harvard. In any relationship in which a group of human beings live together...
...reborn Government was still in a kind of political twilight sleep, and General de Gaulle moved as warily as a sleepwalker. Wrote the Herald Tribune's Sonia Tomara: "De Gaulle has passed hours interviewing members of resistance groups. ... He has noticed that they are not in agreement either among themselves or with the men who have been in exile. ... He knows the country is in ferment, seething with new ideas and aspirations, but also craving peace and order. . . . His conclusion has been that he should not take rash measures...
...rainy twilight gathered, a closed van crawled through the hooting, whistling crowd. The firing squad marched in single file to a point opposite the six posts and the factory wall. The van door opened. The six Milice stepped out. A Maquis grasped each prisoner...
Industry and labor were deep in the twilight zone between a war economy and postwar readjustments, moving hopefully, hesitantly, sometimes fearfully...