Word: twilighter
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...baffling problem that airplane navigators encounter near the North Pole. The magnetic compass isn't much good because of the nearness of the shifting magnetic pole. In broad daylight the navigators can steer by the sun, at night by the stars. But during the long polar twilight they can see neither sun nor stars...
...Rushing the season, all sorts of wildly sanguine early birds fly by night only to crash by morning. This year September was particularly shuddersome, and its last two shows passed into history even before the calendar did. Out West of Eighth was a strapping bore about cowboys in Manhattan; Twilight Walk, concerned with a sex murderer, was a sad mismating of the tabloids and Freud. As of Oct. 1, there were no newcomers among Broadway's Best Bets...
...Songs at Twilight. Thanks to economies and the World War II boom, the empire was restored to health, and its emperor to some of the power he had wielded of old. In a sense, his kind of journalism had had its sensationalized thunder stolen as long ago as the '20s, with the rise of the tabloids...
Marines v. Police. Meanwhile, a full-fledged battle raged in Bangkok. Women seized their children, and cart ponies reared in their traces as the first detachment of soldiers came racing down Ploen Chit Road with bayonets fixed. As twilight fell, artillery fire was rocking the city streets. The navy established a beachhead at Lumphini Amusement Park. The army dug in at the Sports Club...
...MacArthur's not a candidate for President, there's not a steer in Texas. The Mac-kado rides again!" Most everybody else seemed to take the general's own disclaimers at face value: before Congress, he had referred to himself as "in the fading twilight of life"; in Houston, asked if he would be a candidate for President, he replied, "Emphatically no." What was plainly clear was MacArthur's determination to unseat the President who fired...