Word: twilights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acquire his courage, the sexual organs to gain his power. Like the famed Aniotas or leopard men, Belgian officials say, the murderers often wore hooded, waist-long cloaks of crocodile skin that left their arms free to seize and strike. The attacks mostly took place at dawn or twilight in foggy or hazy weather, and the victims were often paralyzed by fright by the supernatural appearance of the crocodile...
...home in Thebes; I whispered in Cassandra's ear; I felt secure in the shadow of the cross; I rode phantom horses through the Nordic lands and danced on the Northern twilight--among the apparitions of the imagination...
...Author Serling is more in demand than any other playwright in the TV business, was recently corralled by CBS on the fanciest terms ever offered a TV writer-$10,000 apiece for three Playhouse 90 scripts, 40% ownership in CBS's forthcoming science fiction series titled Twilight Zone, plus freedom, to turn out four scenarios...
...radio or radar waves with extraordinary efficiency; small ones stand out on a radarscope as if they were heavy bombers. The NACA plan is to put one of these large but almost immaterial objects on an orbit so high that residual air will not slow it appreciably. At twilight it will look as bright as the North Star, and radars pointed at it will show it plainly. They can follow it on its course and measure its distance and direction continuously...
Died. Count Alfred Potocki, 71, once Poland's No. i aristocrat, brother of Count Jerzy Potocki (onetime-1936-40-Polish Ambassador to the U.S.); in Geneva. In Poland's pre-World War II twilight, Potocki liked to entertain visiting royalty at the family's lavishly furnished Lancut Castle, which is now a Communist rest center...