Word: twilighter
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...with a clue supplied by a young archaeology enthusiast, Ramskou has discovered the secret of the sun-seeking stones of the ancients. To the ten-year-old son of Jorgen Jensen, chief navigator of the Scandinavian Airlines System, the instrument described in Skalk sounded much like the twilight compass used by his father on flights at high latitudes, where the magnetic compass is unreliable. The twilight compass is equipped with a Polaroid filter that enables a navigator to locate the position of the sun-even when it is behind clouds or below the horizon-by the sunlight polarized...
...with the mawkishness of a white-haired Uriah Heep. "How many times do you want to hang me?" he asked his colleagues. "If you want to do it, be done with it-be done with it! Do away with me, and that will be the end! But in the twilight of my life-and how many years are left to me? Probably few, probably few-I ask you to search your souls about these facts, in the knowledge that every Senator has about others in this body...
MAHLER: DAS LIED VON DER ERDE. This melancholy masterpiece, a symphonic setting for ancient Chinese poems at once contemplating the twilight of life and poignantly recalling its pleasures, has appeared in three new interpretations, each worth considering...
...will guess, maybe the son of New York's mayor? He is not. He is the positively super-fab lead singer of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Anyone who does not know that is obviously lame, a noid-or perhaps just over 25 and into the twilight of life. To stop being such a square or a jerk paranoid type, all that is necessary is to start digging a new breed of magazine that is aimed at the hip teenager...
...abandoned dirt roadway. Even before the Huey hit the ground, its six passengers were out and running. Their faces streaked with camouflage paint, their black and green "tiger suits" blending into the foliage, their black-stocked M-16 automatic rifles at the ready, they faded swiftly into the perennial twilight of 80-ft. trees, impenetrable bamboo thickets, and tangles of thorn and "wait a minute" vines. This was "Lurp Team Two," a long-range reconnaissance patrol (LRRP) of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, sent to seek out two Viet Cong regiments that their outfit was itching to locate, engage and destroy...