Word: twilight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...organized in 1940 by Adman Michael M. Sillerman, who found that "one-third of the nation, 32 million people who live in communities of 50,000 and under, are in a twilight zone that is only partly covered by the four big networks." Sillerman saw a virgin market for national advertising. He moved in to provide the small stations in these areas with a sizable schedule of transcribed shows (including sustainers). With transcriptions, KBS saved its stations the high cost of network wire lines, cut advertising rates to less than half the charges of the wire networks...
...tropical twilight of Ciudad Trujillo, the din of traffic along the sea front had hushed. A convoy of seven limousines drew up at the foot of the obelisk (white and floodlit like the Washington Monument), and from the car with the five-starred gold license plates stepped a beady-eyed little man. Bodyguards with their Tommy guns at the ready followed him to his customary concrete bench against the sea wall. There, opposite the statue of himself and within sight of the monument reared in his honor, His Excellency, Generalissimo Dr. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, Honorable Chief of State, Benefactor...
...explained that the union is in a "sort of twilight zone" as it is retiring from the Federation as of April 30. He noted that other Federation unions have rejected the same offer that the Maryland workers accepted...
...single day, 150 of them were burned alive. Things are not that bad now. But the 80,000-odd Protestants in postFascist Italy find their prospects for religious liberty looking worse instead of better. In the current Christian Century, Journalist Robert Root reports the situation under the pessimistic title, "Twilight of Religious Liberty...
...Recently I was coming up the Patapsco River toward Baltimore. The time-at the twilight's last gleaming. My eyes could be turned in only one direction-toward Fort McHenry to see that our flag was still there. It was not. At the classic flagpole spot where at noon 'the broad stripes and bright stars o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming,' there was nothing but the dim line of a naked pole. . . . That unflagged pole was one of the bitterest disappointments of my life...