Word: sunsetting
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...Blessed Legacy. But even in Malaya in the sunset of empire, Britain did things in style. At Kuala Lumpur's newly built Merdeka Stadium, the mustachioed Duke of Gloucester formally conferred sovereignty on the new nation, in the name of his niece, the Queen. Backing the duke was a distinguished group of Britons, including Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer, who as High Commissioner to Malaya turned the tide against the Communist rebellion in Malaya in 1952-54, and Viscount Kilmuir, the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain...
...religion sprang up from the remnants of the old, and throughout rural Viet Nam last week illiterate, black-clad peasants bolted their doors at sunset, murmured incantations to the lotus flower, and talked in fearful and guarded tones of the Devil King and his Flying Men. The Devil King struck first last month at a small village 100 miles west of Saigon. His men entered a village restaurant, cold-bloodedly executed 17 men, women and children; a Buddhist was beheaded while praying...
...Continue." That night, after the earth was dark, Simons' balloon still shone with reflected sunlight. Through his porthole windows, he stared at the most impressive sight of his life: a stratosphere sunset. Checking the changing shades against a spectrum chart, he radioed a fervid description back to earth, once excitedly described a shade as "purplish blue blue." Said he: "There's no color on. this chart to match it. No sunset on earth was ever so beautiful...
City Planner Julius Caesar brought some order by decreeing that carts should move only at night; those overtaken by dawn had to remain parked until sunset. He also tried to straighten out confusion in the Forum by moving the Rostra (named for the rostra, ships' prows, captured at Actium), where orators held forth, to one end of the Forum. He began the 110-yd.-long Basilica Julia, alongside the Temple of Castor and Pollux (see cut), to serve as an exchange, law court and meeting place. Caesar's successors carried on with ever-increasing grandiloquence and display, creating...
While Pianist Liberace and brother George performed at a Sunset Boulevard nightclub, two hooded thugs hid in the garage of Liberace's home in suburban Los Angeles, grabbed their 68-year-old mother, Mrs. Frances Casadonte, as she stepped outside the house, and kicked her unconscious. The attackers stole nothing from the $75,000 house. Said one, as Mrs. Casadonte lay gasping from bruises and a fractured rib: "This will give him something to laugh about." Said the other: "Kick her again and we'll have something to laugh about." Said Liberace:,."We are unaware of the reason...