Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know, the race goes off at 7:30 this morning, the crack a dawn, and the place is really jumping already. Over at the stables last night there was a lotta activity, what with dolls lining up guys in case they cop the classic today, and I even hear one young one say something about "doggin...
MacArthur swung a majestic glance backward at Asia's past. "The peoples of Asia found their opportunity in the war just past to throw off the shackles of colo- nialism and now see the dawn of new opportunity . . . This is the direction of Asian progress and it may not be stopped...
...time young Scripps turned in after dawn, he had firmly twisted one of Christ's sayings to his own future uses: "It is more profitable to give wages, than to receive them." Some weeks later, sitting in the Colosseum in Rome on a moonlit night, he extended his credo: "Let the other fellow have all the glory. Let him occupy the place in the limelight. For me, I only care to have the power...
...Tokyo's grey, early-morning dampness, the general's five-starred Chrysler swung down the highway through the lanes of Japanese police and some 200,000 citizens who had been waiting since dawn to pay a farewell to the conqueror who had won their admiration. The car rolled to a stop on the broad apron of Tokyo's Haneda airport. Douglas MacArthur stepped out, his face drawn and grey beneath the battered, gold-laced cap. He shook hands with Matt Ridgway, the man Harry Truman had sent to relieve him, then stood at attention to receive...
...Caine Mutiny, Novelist Herman Wouk (Aurora Dawn, The City Boy) has tackled a problem of considerably greater moment than those confronted by the personal-gripe, crushed-sensitive-youth school of U.S. war novelists (Norman Mailer, James Jones). What, he asks in effect, is of first consequence: the sprinkling of nasty little Queegs and the irritations suffered by their subordinates, or the good sense and steady drive of the Willie Keiths in the face of pressures they had never expected to meet...