Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strike of the nation's 650,000 United Steelworkers (C.I.O.) seemed so inevitable that mills had begun banking their furnaces when the Wage Stabilization Board sat down in Washington one evening last week for a final, desperate attempt at mediation. At dawn, the chairman, Nathan P. Feinsinger, 49, a University of Wisconsin law professor, fainted from exhaustion. The board recessed until evening. At 9:30, just 74½ hours before the strike deadline, its twelve haggard members emerged with a majority recommendation...
Decision Before Dawn. A spy drama, semi-documentary in flavor, set against the spiritual and physical chaos of Germany on the eve of defeat in World War II (TIME...
...Presidents have left office in such a huff as to miss the inaugurations of their successors. Crusty John Adams did it* when Thomas Jefferson defeated him for re-election in 1800. He left the capital at dawn of Inauguration Day, and by March 17, 1801, after a 14-day journey, he was back on his Quincy, Mass. farm. He even congratulated himself, Yankee-fashion, on a shrewd swap, having made, he felt, "a good exchange ... of honors and virtues for manure...
Under George (Born Yesterday) Cukor's direction, Judy Holliday is still playing dumb Billie Dawn, while Newcomer Aldo Ray is just a nice husky guy with an even huskier voice. The plot reconciles them at the end on the questionable grounds that they have a way of life worth saving, but by that time the wordy script has divorced itself from its theme...
Havoc & Confession. Thereafter, Beverley met everyone, from Gertrude Stein (like "seeing Gibraltar at dawn") to Queen Elizabeth (he played her a Chopin étude when she was Duchess of York). But the person who turned his glamorous life upside down was Journalist Dorothy Woodman (wife of New Statesman Editor Kingsley Martin), who convinced him in the twinkling of an eye that war was just "a racket." Beverley had found the "cause" he needed to balance his "idiotic life" as a bright young thing. The book that resulted from his conversion, Cry Havoc (1933), proved to be one of the influential...