Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...darkness fell, they clotted along Atlantic Boulevard near the ocean, blocking traffic, emitting their distinctive cries, and sniffing the heady air of freedom. Dawn-and every subsequent dawn-brought proof that they had not been idle. Greek letters appeared on the municipal water tower, coconuts crashed through windows, a dead shark materialized in the Horizon Hotel's swimming pool, and two students were pinched for swimming in the buff. At 1 :30 on Easter morning a car driven by a boy from Ohio careened into the wrong lane and hit a girl from Missouri and a boy from Delaware...
...Before dawn one day last week, a detachment of Kenya cops, supported by armored cars, marched into Pumwani, a filth-strewn warren where a large part of Nairobi's 60-odd thousand Kikuyu somehow find space to live. Dragged from their mud huts, 20,000 Kukes were herded into compounds; 2,500 suspected Mau Mau terrorists were culled from among them and clapped into jail. Next day there were more arrests; another 3,500 "suspects" were seized near Thika...
...mass movements of Kikuyu have naturally worsened a confusion that was already chronic. One official orders a thousand Kukes to be at a railroad siding at dawn for shipment in trucks to the reserves; but another official delivers only sufficient trucks for 300 people. The farmers who have been told to deliver the Kukes at the railroad siding are then left to dispose of the 700 overflow as best they can. Nobody so far has seriously faced up to the position that will soon exist, when there are more Kikuyu in the reserves than the reserves can possibly feed...
...Promptly at 5:20 a.m., in pre-dawn darkness, observers stared at nothing through their heavy protective goggles and listened to the ominous "Count Down." "Zero minus five seconds," chanted the loudspeaker, "four three, two, one, zero." There was a searing flash of light and heat like the rising of a new sun. Then a dirty orange fireball rose lazily over the desert. Now visible were the high-climbing, vertical trails left by the rockets set off to measure the passage of the shock wave (see opposite page). Almost half a minute later, the shock wave itself roared...
...Memo at Dawn. By chance that morning, Eisenhower's sleep was restless. Up at 6 a.m., half an hour earlier than usual, he read the memo left for him. The presidential day that followed was crammed with urgent consultation...