Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corner of the improvised litter. Bright, raucous mortar bursts followed along behind them. The bursts were short and above the din they heard a cheering sound-two alarmed Chinese patrols back on the ridge were busily trying to kill each other. The Marines reached their own lines safely by dawn. But it was, they agreed to a man, a miserable type of war for U.S. Marines...
...Cornelius rushed up from the engine room. The pirates covered him as well. Then all the ship's officers and forecastle hands, seven in all, were herded into an 8-ft.-by-10-ft. cabin in the bow. There was no toilet, little air, and before dawn the pirates painted the portholes black...
...passenger list also included handsome young Cooper John Alden (Van Johnson) and baby-faced Priscilla Mullins (Dawn Addams). As for Captain Myles Standish (Noel Drayton), the picture portrays him as a happily married man who never courted Priscilla at all. With a shortage of food and water, but not of romance, the Mayflower finally makes Provincetown...
...King held Admirals Halsey and Kinkaid both at fault in the Battle for Leyte Gulf-Halsey for letting himself be drawn off base by a Japanese decoy force, Kinkaid for not making dawn air searches...
April 1, 1931 saw the dawn of another new era--the glee club went on the air in a broadcast for a philanthropic organization. Six years later the club broadcast a show to France by short wave...