Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After wartime training in the U.S., he became police chief and his country's strong man in 1947. Since then, he has made and unmade five Presidents. When one of them tried to ease him out of his job in 1949, he fired the President in a pre-dawn coup. Prosperous (from cattle and other private interests) and powerful, Chichi was content to stay in the background until this year. Then he put a trusted subordinate in command of the police and ran for President. His lively brunette wife Cecilia, known as "Ceci" to most Panamanians, stumped the country...
...butchered a cat to see whether it had nine lives. These were mere preliminary excursions; he inherited a fortune from his pious father and went on to broader fields. At 23, he became Brother Perdurabo ("I will endure to the end") of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The group was interested in communication with good or angelic spirits in the "beyond" (William Butler Yeats was also a member). Crowley branched out a bit; he promptly set up a "black magic" room, and once by his own count gathered 316 devils together...
...home, too, Naguib continued to prove a determined leader. On his first day as Premier, he presided over an all-night cabinet session (interrupted for prayers and sandwiches). At dawn next day, his government promulgated a code of reform laws designed to make sweeping changes in the ancient land of the Nile. The laws would: ¶ Expropriate all land holdings over 200 acres within five years, landlords to be compensated by the government. ¶Distribute the new land (some 700,000 acres) to peasants owning no land or less than five acres. Maximum to be allowed new peasant landholders: five...
...been forced by his family to leave the unlucky old man and find work on a more successful boat. But the boy still brings him bait and food. Gnarled and bone weary, the old man can only doze and dream and hope that his luck will change. Before dawn on the 85th day, feeling somehow confident, the old man sets out again in his skiff. "Good luck, old man," says Manolin. "Good luck," answers...
...skiff-and heads for home. Then come the hijacking sharks. At first the old man kills them as they come in to attack his catch; then, his harpoon lost in one, his knife broken off in another, he gives in to the inevitable. What he brings in before dawn is a stripped skeleton, 18 feet long, which astonishes all who see it when day breaks. Wearily the old man asks himself what beat him out there. He answers himself aloud: "Nothing, I went out too far." But already he and the boy are planning to go out again...