Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dawn trickled in through the clerestory windows of the House, dozens of M.P.s were asleep at their posts, but Manny Shinwell was still mounted on the ramparts, hurling mud. "Representatives of the so-called gentlemanly party, who have lambasted members on this side . . . are now squealing because they are getting some of it back," he gloated. "It is impossible to insult some of them. If someone spat in their faces, they would think it was rain...
...cruiser's guns raked Hill 459, the valleys and road junctions around it, cutting the battlefield off from Red reinforcement. Meanwhile, in the light of the destroyer's star shells, the South Korean infantrymen cut down the attackers, dug in and held. At dawn the cruiser lifted its fire from the target hill, and hands on deck watched airplanes from the carrier Bon Homme Richard buzz inland to hit the enemy with napalm and rockets...
...Before dawn one day last week, a hunting party of five men sloshed through the rain-soaked woods of Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia with their two Little River duck dogs, Dusty and Tootsie. At the rocky shore of Lake Mestock the party divided, settled down to wait in their spruce and fern blinds on opposite sides of the lake. They didn't have to wait long. Just after 8 o'clock a flock of nearly 200 ducks circled over the lake and landed on the water some 1,000 yards off the west shore...
...dawn of the third day, a worried Barabbas hid himself near the sepulchre: Would the dead man really rise from the grave, as he had heard some of the man's disciples predict? Examining the sepulchre, Barabbas was amazed to find it empty; but, of course, he reasoned, the disciples had stolen off with the body...
...degree in biology at the Sorbonne in the early '30s, likes to say that he "abandoned the scientific laboratory of biology for the human laboratory of politics." Sixteen months ago, Politico Guevara, a former cabinet minister, tried to come to power by arms. His revolution began at dawn in Guayaquil, Ecuador's second city (pop. 216,000) and major seaport. It ended with his humiliating arrest a couple of hours later by the army officers he thought would join him. By 4 p.m. the same day, he was in the massive old jail in Quito, Ecuador...