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...Alabamian (named Alabam) who outhears everybody else and who, whenever there is dangerous confusion, cries: "Kin anybody see anything?" Typical use of music: a studio orchestra plays The Star-Spangled Banner, pianissimo, as the stranded stretcher cases watch the ship that refused to take them withdraw into a calendar sunset...
...boat pens, air bases, all around France up to Holland and back. She still had her original Pratt & Whitney 2,000 h.p. engines. No one had picked any soft spots for the ship, even when she neared her record. Her last two missions were done between dawn and sunset, her last four in 36 hours...
...portrait was almost the summation of an epoch. A few months after Sargent finished it, little Osbert heard the village church bells toll for the death of Queen Victoria, and for the "sunset hour of one of the great periodic calms of history." Then he saw his aristocraticelders' lips move in bewilderment. "What shall we do now?" they said...
Jack reached for his well-worn hat, suggested a "walk-about." They walked all afternoon, coming to the Esplanade beside the leisurely, looping Swan River at sunset. Said thoughtful Jack Curtin: "Vance, you should have said where past history is written. This is where history is going to be written. Why don't you stay and help write it? Australia's big, Vance, not England. There's room to breathe here, to grow, to live...
Kwajalein lies in the midst of the western Ralik (Sunset) group of the Marshalls like a string of beads carelessly cast upon a table. The deep lagoon surrounded by this string is 66 miles long, ten miles wide, big enough to hold all the world's shipping. The atoll itself consists of 92 bits of sand-covered coral, some big enough to be called islands...