They would go before sunrise or hold it in until darkness fell once again to avoid being seen.

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The Sun set just a few hours later, leaving us once again in the darkness.

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But the effort was called off Friday due to darkness, and the team will try again on Saturday, Guerrero said.

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If you had CV-22 type technology, could have been done with a single in-and-out pass -- albeit with helicopter refueling with C-130 type assets -- moving directly into the objective area, and then being able to extract during that, again, single period of darkness.

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What we as a country owed them was nights, at the end, when they never again had to feel that dread in the darkness.

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Then he laughed and stood up and waved his gloved hands again and jerked the light chain, bringing down darkness.

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Out of the darkness that was the Holocaust comes the eternal hope that never again, never again, will we allow that to happen.

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The night after the blackout, there was indeed an earthquake, of 6.8 on the Richter scale strong enough to cut the power supply and once again to plunge large areas of the northern Philippines into darkness.

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