Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doing and where they are going. They have found that when things go wrong at night, they can go "awfully wrong"-meaning that nocturnal confusion causes unnecessary casualties. Also, if the enemy has succeeded in grabbing a U.N. outpost during the night, it pays the U.N. to counterattack at dawn's early light, so as to give the burrowing Reds little or no time to dig in. And if the enemy can use night harassments to rob U.N. troops of sleep, the U.N. can return the favor by harassing the enemy...
Years later, British and U.S. counterespionage agents ran down the now familiar roster of traitors: Klaus Fuchs, Harry Gold, David Greenglass, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Only then did the full significance of the atomic spy ring dawn on the free world. All this while, in Britain's Wakefield prison, Allan Nunn May had proved an exemplary prisoner, becoming a trusty and working as a librarian, and earning all the remission allowed by British law for good behavior. This week, after serving two-thirds of his time (six years eight months), Atomic Physicist Allan Nunn May was released, his debt...
...dawn flushed the snow on the mountains of Lebanon, one of the passengers, Robert Bagarry, went on deck to watch the lights of his home town, Beirut, twinkling on the starboard bow. "We were heading north," he said afterwards. "Then suddenly we turned east ... directly towards the land. I felt like yelling to the bridge to tell them they were wrong, but I said to myself, 'They know better than...
...rattled gourds, joined in the shuffling and shimmying around the sacred poteau (post). As the dancing grew more boisterous, women screamed, thrashed, moaned, kicked, bounced bonelessly and collapsed -"possessed" by the loa (god) of the night. Though no loa "mounted" him, Doc Reser danced, drummed and drank happily till dawn...
...dawn one day in 1943, two policemen chased a stolen car through Petersburg, Va. and forced it into a ditch. In the wreck they found two soldiers, both AWOL. One cop stayed behind guarding them; the other, R. B. Hatchell, set off in pursuit of the driver, who had run away. Half an hour later two shots rang out; Hatchell's body was found nearby...