Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dawn next morning a rescue party of experienced climbers set off up the mountain. It was mid-afternoon when they came back, pulling a lifeless, blanket-covered form on a toboggan. The vicar came out to meet them. Head bare, his overcoat collar turned up around his neck, he read from a prayer book: "Into thy hands, O merciful Saviour, we commend the soul of thy servant, now departed from the body . . ." Then he bent over the toboggan and wept...
...Compound 602 held an elaborate funeral service for a Communist fanatic shot by a U.S. sergeant for resisting search. Shortly after dawn, a P.W. band using beer-can bugles, bamboo flutes and drums made of oilcans struck up an eerie cacophony. Twelve Chinese carrying flowers made of G.I. toilet paper shuffled out of the compound to the camp cemetery. Boatner approved the procession; in return, the Communists agreed to remove insulting anti-U.N. slogans from the barbed wire fence.* In Compound 76, the scene of General Dodd's imprisonment, unidentified corpses, presumably anti-Communists murdered by Red ringleaders...
...eyes bloodshot and his legs stiff with fatigue, an allied occupation official gulped his sixth cup of coffee shortly before dawn one day last week. Wearily he trudged back to a room where, for 14 hours, the occupiers and West German government officials had sat about a conference table. "I think we've just about got it wrapped up," said...
...dawn last week, an American pilot flew eastward from the dead refinery town of Abadan along the shore of the Persian Gulf. As he skimmed five feet above fields crawling with dark brown insects, the 24 nozzles attached to the tanks slung under the plane's wings sprayed down death. The tanks were filled with Aldrin, a powerful new U.S. insecticide that kills locusts but is harmless to crops and cattle. Other Americans flew on similar missions in Jordan, Iraq and Pakistan, in a Point Four campaign that is costing the U..S. half a million dollars...
...neatly dressed individual with dark hair and eyes and the restrained impatience of manner of a man whose every moment is very, very valuable. In his 63 rd year, Walter Lippmann still looks the precocious young deep thinker of the days of the new New Republic, when, in the dawn of a freshman century, the country was coming to believe that, if only the dull old vested interests would allow it, all the problems of the universe could be solved by a fresh approach and a logical mind. No word but pundit could be found sufficiently to describe the brightness...