Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Champagne, lobsters, ballets, minuets, rumbas, sambas, Charlestons and a troupe of acrobats diverted the guests in the palace until dawn. In the courtyard, lordly Don Carlos had provided a special party for the common folk, including soft drinks, which they paid for, a free Punch & Judy show, and a contest to see who could climb to the top of a greased pole. There was even some mingling between the two worlds. One reporter spotted Mme. Louis Arpels (her husband is the famed Paris jeweler) dancing with an open-shirted Venetian lad in the courtyard...
...Having no official tide, Colombia's himno national is frequently referred to by the first line of its first verse: "Cesó la horrible noche." It continues: "Sublime liberty brings on the dawn with its invincible light." The "horrible night" was the period of Spanish rule. **For word of another kind of oil deal...
...forted up in the stone house at his ranch. He had rigged floodlights to the eaves on every side and installed watchdogs (heavy-duty Dalmatians and tiny, yapping Chihuahuas). As an additional alarm system, he kept screaming peacocks and cackling guinea hens near the house. He seldom slept until dawn. He sat up, rifle at hand, night after night, drinking beer out of cans and fiddling with airplane parts...
...Moscow on Aviation Day, all roads lead to Tushino. Even before dawn, thousands of streetcars and buses stream towards the huge airfield twelve miles from the city's heart. By 11 a.m. one day last month, 500,000 people blotted out the flag-decked stands, overflowed on to nearby railroad embankments. In the reviewing stand, flanked by his Politburo, stood Joseph Stalin himself. The Soviet national anthem blared out over the plain. "Dear Comrades, Muscovites," crackled the loudspeakers, "the festival of Stalin's aviation has started...
Last week A.L.P.A.'s executive board had enough. In a session that broke up at dawn, the union's directors kicked Behncke out of the presidency, retired him on a pension of $15,000 a year, equal to his salary as president. A.L.P.A.'s new president: Clarence Sayen. Cried ex-President Behncke, who threatened to take the whole matter to court: "Illegal Putsch...