Word: twilighter
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Both fighters are now confronted with the slide into the twilight of their careers. Past 30 years old, the watershed of many a fighting career, neither can afford a further tarnishing of the record to hasten the skid from the top. And with an awesome new champ holding court today as king of the heavyweights, tonight's Ali-Frazier is a battle of the "once-weres" not the "here-and-nows...
...though the delegate had arrived July 12. The President accepted from Country-Western Singer Tex Ritter a record of excerpts from Nixon speeches narrated by Ritter and titled Thank You, Mr. President. He received petitions of support signed by 46,000 people in Shreveport and Bossier City, La. At twilight Friday, Nixon, applauded by Boy Scouts and Camp Fire girls, pushed a button to light a star atop the nation's Christmas tree on the Ellipse south of the White House...
...best time to view Kohoutek is on January 10, "just as twilight is deepening in the southwest evening sky," Whipple said...
...domination, Aurobindo sought to transform earthly existence by bringing the divine down into it. Aurobindo's vision of a "supramental" human consciousness has often been compared to Teilhard de Chardin's hopes for an ever-increasing spiritualization of man and his world. "I saw them cross the twilight of an age," Aurobindo wrote in his 24,000-line epic poem Savitri, "the sun-eyed children of a marvelous dawn...
...with his fists, which are surprisingly effective. Yet Donleavy's New Yorkers are thorough professionals, blunt and disturbingly honest about their own illusions. Unfortunately, Donleavy is rather slippery about his own illusions. The city, he seems to be saying (especially when he pumps his prose full of Celtic twilight), is no place for a wandering Christian...