Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was almost no warning. What had been only an angry sea storm at night exploded before dawn into a rampage that raked the coastal lengths of The Netherlands, Belgium and northern France, and the southeastern coasts of England. Pushing at the mouths of rivers and canals, the wind-driven tides drove floodwaters far inland-across 40 miles of The Netherlands in some areas, even into Germany as far as Düsseldorf (90 miles from the Zuider Zee), well up England's Thames into the streets of London's suburbs...
Judgment Executed. Soon after dawn one day last week, a crowd of about 500 gathered outside the gates of Wands-worth jail. A Rolls-Royce disgorged a wealthy woman who said she has spent ?60,000 fighting capital punishment. She hammered on the jail gates shouting: "This boy is being murdered. I want to see the governor." The crowd took up her cry, "Murder! Murder...
...Reds proposed 2,300 separate amendments and wanted to debate them all. Night after night they sent a steady stream of speakers forward to keep parliament in session until dawn; when larynxes failed, they used fists, chair legs and football rushes. Once, as a vote approached on an important maneuver, Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti deployed a cordon of Communist deputies around the ballot box to keep others from voting. One by one, pro-government deputies managed to break through to drop small wooden balls (white for yes, black for no) into the box. Infuriated, the Reds tossed all the voting...
...must be firm with Germans. They are raised differently from us and react better if one is absolutely rigorous. Only patience will get us what we want." When the German cast moved off the set, Preminger called for his English-speaking actors-David Niven, William Holden, Maggie McNamara and Dawn Addams-and shot the same scene with less difficulty-and less patience-in English...
...kinds will be needed. Says Westinghouse's Gwilym Price : "We think 1953 should be a year of con tinued high production in the appliance business. We expect the consumer to buy at the highest rate in history." In 1953 the long-heralded age of atomic power will dawn. Westinghouse will start operating the land-based prototype of the reactor it is building to power the sub marine Nautilus. Since the reactor could also be used to run a commercial power plant, the National Security Resources Board urged the Atomic Energy Commission to let U.S. industry apply its own huge...