Word: twilighter
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...down over the rocks and past the cliff-edge, down to the deep gully where the lemons hung in cool eternal shadow; and in the silence slipped off her wrapper to wash herself quickly at one of the deep, clear green basins, she would notice, in the bare green twilight, under the lemon leaves, that all her body was rosy, rosy and turning to gold ... And she would rub a little olive oil in her skin, and wander a moment in the dark underworld of the lemons ... laughing to herself. There was just a chance some peasant might...
There was a variety of good books by experts discussing their chosen fields. Harvard President James Conant's Science and Common Sense was a book that could dispel a lot of fuzziness if it got the reading it deserved. Andre Malraux's The Twilight of the Absolute was loaded with fresh, if intricate, thinking about art. C. W. Ceram's Gods, Graves & Scholars ranged readably over the history of archeology...
...left the streetcar just as twilight was beginning to settle over one of South Boston's dingier neighborhoods. This was to be my night watching the Wearever Waterless Cookwear salesman prepare a dinner. The Wearever Company offers part-time jobs to students, and requires each applicant to spend some time with one of the Company's representatives as training for the job. After a five-minute walk I reached the three-decker walkup where I was to meet the salesman...
...Held in Los Angeles, it was the first "twilight" (7 p.m.) title fight in modern ring history, gave Eastern televiewers a chance to see the result before bedtime...
...good solution for the problem would be a simple, accurate instrument to measure the polarity of the twilight sky and reveal the position of the sun below the horizon. Then the sun could be used to steer by, just as if it were visible. If Dr. Waterman's work is successful, U.S. pilots may some time steer across the North Pole, high above the overcast, guided by an instrument patterned on the eye of a horseshoe crab...