Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sister," the old man told Nurse Gwendoline Howell, "you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die." Before the next dawn, George Bernard Shaw had lapsed into final unconsciousness. A little over 24 hours later, the 94-year-old philosopher, playwright, professional pixie and self-styled "Bishop of Everywhere" was dead...
...dollar. For years A & P had carefully cultivated their good will in other ways. It spent millions showing them how to get better prices by improving the quality of their products. It persuaded them to let peaches ripen on the trees before picking; to pick fresh corn before dawn and get it to A & P stores the same day; to crossbreed chickens in a way to produce more white meat (the "Chicken of Tomorrow" -a breed with a huge breast, tiny legs and wings). Many a labor union also supported A & P (many stores are unionized) because...
...illusion was heightened by the hour of meeting-dawn had just begun to silhouette a great black thundercloud east of Wake Island as the Independence circled for a landing. Even in the dim light, the President could see dozens of Japanese tanks rusting away along the barren beaches. The President's plane landed, taxied past the aircraft that had brought MacArthur (he had arrived twelve hours earlier), Truman's advisers, and 35 stateside reporters and cameramen...
Fortunately, says Historian Berrill, Columbus did not know all that modern natural historians know. He sailed on & on, believing that each dawn would light a distant rock. Each misread sign gave his fractious sailors a new shot of hope too. On their tenth day out of San Sebastian, they had more water before them than behind...
...next dawn a big U.N. aerial hunt was underway. Superforts, Shooting Stars and Mustangs scourged the highways coming down from the north to Pyongyang on the west and Wonsan on the east coast of the peninsula. The enemy's vehicles moved warily by night, were pulled off the roads and skillfully camouflaged during the day. North of Pyongyang, U.N. planes claimed the destruction in one 24-hour period of 85 trucks carrying tanks and artillery. Rockets and napalm bombs hit supply dumps, barracks and training camps in the North Korean defense line...