Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leaving Hampton Roads. Va., at dawn, 16 large Martin bombers flew in war formation to Bangor, Me., covering the distance of 800 miles in eight and a half hours. At Mitchel Field, L. I., the armada was reinforced by a squadron of fast De Havilands and single-seater fighters. Fully armed and equipped, the Martin bombers each carried from three to five men, camp equipment from cots to typewriters, enough food to last four days. Sometimes the commander, Major John N. Reynolds, took his fleet in single file, sometimes in V formation so close together that the wing tips seemed...
Memories of a burning dawn...
Carlotta has no knowledge of the days that followed that burning dawn in 1869 when Mexican rebels shot Maximilian against a wall. Since that day and through all her wanderings she has been stark...
...bootleggers insisted it was time to begin operations. Finally he could put them off no longer. "That night the underworld rejoiced. A damp and fetid night it was ... a dreary, dismal night, hung on the edge of the calendar, where approaching Winter touches the garments of departing Autumn." At dawn laden trucks rolled out of the brewery gates?and prohibition agents snapped them up, arresting all the bootleggers. Weeks later a friend approached the agent who had schemed it all and told him that the bootleggers had him marked for death. "The agent whistled...
...have been heaped upon me call for blood!" Up jumped General Szeptycki, Minister of War and one of Pilsudski's bitterest opponents, and accepted the challenge. Seconds were chosen from the now sobered officers. Two limousines left Warsaw "for a secluded spot." Next morning in the gray of dawn the limousines returned. Marshal Pilsudski and General Szeptycki descended suffering acutely from-bad headaches! One of the seconds was wounded in the foot: he had stubbed his toe against a rock! Pilsudski's admirers, although apparently in ignorance of what took place on the "field of battle," stress...