Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife & children on a farm wagon, tied his cows on behind and fled to the West. The police had orders to shoot on sight anyone found in the first eleven yards of the isolation belt. Life in the bordering belts was hedged with a strict curfew from dusk to dawn...
...eliminated the "thee's" and "thou's" of earlier translators, edited such elaborate phrases as "Odysseus of many counsels answered her saying . . ." to "Odysseus answered . . ." He changed Poseidon, Girdler of the Earth, to Earthshaker Poseidon, called the Cyclops "Goggle-eyes" instead of "froward," transformed the "fair-tressed Dawn" into "welcome streaks of light." He restored some of Homer's humor by translating a few names literally (Acroneus, Ocyalus and Elatreus became Top-ship, Quicksea and Paddler), allowed his characters to say such things as "Daddy, dear . . ." or "Old fellow . . ." All in all, Rouse added quite...
...dawn, the little (pop. 1,400) Long Island village of Bridgehampton was noisily abustle. By 6 a.m., ratchety Coopers, purring Allards and roaring Ferraris were already tuning up. By noon, three hours before the start of the big Bridgehampton Cup race, some 35,000 spectators lined the closed-course route. They craned at one of the three killing right-angle turns, or hurried down to the bridge where the cars jumped to a four-wheel takeoff. Some were attracted by the morbid sudden-death aspect of the sport, but mostly they were dedicated sports-car fans...
Most modern authorities agree that Stonehenge was built by sun worshipers. Within the twin stone circles are two horseshoes of heavy rock and a vast sandstone altar. Some 80 yards away stands a marking stone known as the "Friar's Heel." At dawn on Midsummer Day (June 24), the rising sun casts a shadow of the Friar's Heel on the great altar. Astronomer Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer has calculated that on Midsummer Day, 1680 B.C., the sun rose directly over the special marking notch that can still be seen on the Heel. Libby's measurements tend...
Poor Man's Appetite. In Milwaukee, Ralph Buchanan broke into a tavern at dawn, got hot lifting bottles of champagne out of a wine-cellar window, decided to have a quick beer, was still searching for a bottle-opener when cops came...