Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dawn one morning last week, three red-tailed 6-293 took off from New Mexico's Kirtland Air Force Base and began circling over the AEC's atomic proving grounds at Frenchman's Flat. On the desert below, the Army was supposed to have set up infantry positions, emplaced artillery, and deployed tanks. At 7:20, the 6-295 slid into formation and swept over the target. A blinding, dome-shaped flash lit up the sky; the familiar, mushroom-topped cloud shot up to 20,000 feet. Three hours later, a loo-mile-long radioactive cloud...
...Wrong Key. Came the dawn. At 8:30 Eileen rose and went for a walk. A detective spotted her, followed her back to the hotel, identified her and found Marilyn. Just then Roberta called from the Dixie Hotel. Soon she and Eckhart found themselves under arrest. Where, cried the law, was the money? A fella with long eyelashes, Roberta informed them, had gone to get it. Before the police could set out on his trail, Cousson showed up with a sad story...
...They were as unstable as water," T. E. Lawrence wrote of the Arabs in Seven Pillars of Wisdom, "and like water would perhaps finally prevail. Since the dawn of life, in successive waves, they had been dashing themselves against the coasts of flesh. Each wave was broken, but, like the sea, wore away ever so little of the granite on which it failed . . . The wash of [each] wave, thrown back by the resistance of vested things, will provide the matter of the following wave...
...what the outstanding feature of our twentieth century will appear to be in the perspective of 300 years? . . . My own guess is that our age will be remembered chiefly neither for its horrifying crimes nor for its astonishing inventions, but for its having been the first age since the dawn of civilization, some five or six thousand years back, in which people dared to think it practicable to make . . . the ideal of welfare for all a practical objective instead of a mere Utopian dream...
...Mayor Jose Maria Martis wrote furious letters to the Bishop of Salamanca, the Cardinal Primate of Spain, the Superior General of the Discalced Carmelites in Rome and the Spanish government. He, and almost everyone else in Avila, wanted a book suppressed and its author reprimanded- if not shot at dawn...