Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NATO Substantial Achievement In Lisbon's sunny setting, the top diplomats of the free world last week burst out with unexpected optimism. "Dawn is breaking," said Dean Acheson of the U.S., "and a new day is dawning for all of us." Proclaimed Britain's Anthony Eden: "The beginning...
They had gathered in Lisbon for the ninth meeting of the North Atlantic Alliance. Perhaps the dark they had just been through made them overeager to proclaim the dawn. Yet their optimism was also grounded in substantial achievement. Without bickering or hesitation, the 35 foreign, defense and finance ministers' of the 14 Western allies had: ¶ Endorsed for the first time German rearmament and the long-proposed European Army. This cleared the way for the continental six-France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg-to negotiate a treaty fusing their armed forces into an internationalized, one-uniform...
Within hours after Eden and Acheson proclaimed the new dawn, new difficulties came up like thunder. Britain, France and Italy made clear that they will need more American dollars. The French announced that because of their galloping inflation they will be able to raise only twelve divisions by year's end-not 14, as promised...
Decision Before Dawn. A German prisoner (Oskar Werner) sweats out a mission as a U.S. spy in Germany on the brink of defeat in World War II (TIME...
...nearly dawn when two men stumbled into the emergency room, followed by a quartet of policemen and detectives. Both men were bruised and dirty; one was bleeding from an ugly gash on the back of his head, the other from a wound in his temple. Both were drunk, and they were carrying on a loud harangue in Serbian. They had been found beaten and half-conscious on a dark street on Chicago's West Side...