Word: twilighter
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...reborn Government was still in a kind of political twilight sleep, and General de Gaulle moved as warily as a sleepwalker. Wrote the Herald Tribune's Sonia Tomara: "De Gaulle has passed hours interviewing members of resistance groups. ... He has noticed that they are not in agreement either among themselves or with the men who have been in exile. ... He knows the country is in ferment, seething with new ideas and aspirations, but also craving peace and order. . . . His conclusion has been that he should not take rash measures...
...rainy twilight gathered, a closed van crawled through the hooting, whistling crowd. The firing squad marched in single file to a point opposite the six posts and the factory wall. The van door opened. The six Milice stepped out. A Maquis grasped each prisoner...
Industry and labor were deep in the twilight zone between a war economy and postwar readjustments, moving hopefully, hesitantly, sometimes fearfully...
...stood in the twilight and discussed the news of the battle inside the city. It had started on the 19th and, in spite of a reported armistice which has never been verified, much less kept, had never slackened in fury. By Thursday night the Resistance forces held not only the islands of Saint-Louis and La Cite, but the Hotel de Ville, the Palais de Justice, the mairies of all arrondissements and the suburbs of Boulogne, Issy and Chatillon. The Germans held a large circular area bounded by the Eiffel Tower, the Invalides, the Gare du Quai-d'Orsay...
...Payette Lake are beautifully clear; only the city-bred get any feel of the banshee, the barghest, the ouphe (rhymes with out) or other beasts prominent in monster husbandry. So Idahoans discounted serpent talk. And the serpent himself, a shy thing, appeared only at rare intervals, always at twilight...