Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Snapshot Albums. We had been on patrol since dawn. It would be dark before we got home. We had two missions -to plot weather and spot ships. There's nothing to do about the shipping, of course, except to take pictures. But some day the snapshot albums showing ships which carried goods to unfriendly ports while Americans were dying in Korea may prove interesting. You could hope so, anyhow...
...operation by which New York's Dr. Samuel A. Thompson had been able to increase the blood supply to the heart muscle "starved" by coronary artery disease. She passed the folded magazine over to her husband. As they both reread the story several times, hope began to dawn...
Picking up the same dawn-to-dark work routine as her husband, she interviewed hundreds of people daily, made speeches at union rallies all over Argentina. Taking over the management of the rowdy descamisados from her husband, Evita tickled them into submission. When the railway union asked for a 40% rise, Evita said: "I think they should get 50%." They did. When the telephone workers asked for 70% in the pious hope of getting half, Evita got them the whole...
Even before dawn the people began arriving at the clearing on the mountain, just two miles from Pineville, Ky. They came in trucks, cars, and on foot, swarming up the green mountainside 700 strong, to the Clear Creek Mountain Preachers Bible School. There they unloaded the hammers, saws and boards they had brought with them, and by sunup were hard at work...
Then, a month ago, ominous things began to happen at his bureau. One morning at dawn, A.P.'s young Czech translator, Tomas Svoboda, was whisked away in a police raid on his home. Shortly, two other Czech employees vanished. Last week on Sunday, worried Correspondent Oatis himself hurried into the U.S. embassy to report to the clerk on duty that he was being shadowed by Czech secret police 24 hours a day. Oatis said he would return next day. He did not return...