Word: sunsetting
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Echo II is expected to stay up for three years, will be clearly visible above the horizon at sunset and sunrise. A passive communications satellite that will bounce radio signals off its taut surface, Echo II also reflects the first practical attempt at U.S.-Soviet space cooperation. By agreement with Moscow, facsimile picture, voice and code signals will be transmitted soon by means of huge antennas at observatories in Russia and England...
...were whooping it up in a highway-side saloon, toasting Stanford's football victory over Cal, when a young old grad called for the Stanford hymn. "How does it go?" someone asked. "From the ... something . . . something ..." a voice began. "Foothills? Mountains?" someone suggested. Others dimly recalled "in the sunset fire" and "raise our voices singing," until at length a young wife bravely quavered...
From the rolling foothills rise To the mountains higher, When at east the Coast Range lies In the sunset fire...
...Sunset Supper. The ants never let the caterpillars out of their care. During the day they keep the caterpillars in individual burrows a few inches long, and plug the entrances with pellets of earth. A few ants always stay inside to guard each precious caterpillar cow. The burrows are always close to the caterpillars' favorite food plant, a low white-flowered bush, but they may be as far as 50 ft. from the ant colony...
...interest-such as it is-centers on Smith's love for Miss Tomson, a genuinely imagined dream figure of sexual grace who will never become a member of the wedding. She dies, of course, and is buried at sea. Darkly Byronic to the last, Smith glowers at the sunset. "Bubbles and wreaths are left. But maybe you'd like to know that at night seals sing. They come up out of the water with their big sad eyes...