Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Apparently Sobell planned to travel much farther-perhaps to Russia. But last week his travel plans were altered. Picked up on a deportation order, he was whisked across the border before dawn one morning by a mysterious convoy of Mexican secret service agents and deposited at the U.S. border station in Laredo, Texas. There, dumpy, dark-eyed Morton Sobell, 33, his black hair disheveled and his undershirt ballooning from his trousers, was arrested by waiting agents of the FBI as a spy for the Soviet Union...
...morning before dawn, under a quarter moon, Captain Frederick T. Griffiths of Cleveland shouted these brave words to his combat-green company. The Communist enemy was swarming down on them from the crest of a ridge. After the astonished Reds had been chased off the hill, down the far slope and off another hill, Captain Griffiths exulted...
...night the Reds attacked steadily from dusk until dawn. "They don't make sense," said Davis. "We kill 'em and kill 'em and they still keep coming. We captured one that night and he was drunk. They must all be drunk...
These large, economy-size emotions are packaged in purple dialogue and strenuously oversold by Director Anthony (Winchester '73) Mann. To satisfy his enthusiasm for arty, heavily filtered photography, virtually all the outdoor scenes take place in the murky half-light of dawn or dusk, to the point where the movie seems to suggest that the sun never really shone in the old Southwest. Except for a gusty, artful performance by Actor Huston-the last before his death in April-The Furies is notable only as a sample of what Zane Grey might have done if he had tried...
...were slapped by one wing of the Red drive on Chinju," said the Rev. Carroll Chaphe. "The enemy mortars started cracking with the dawn . . . Our casualties were heavier than the medics could handle, but they kept working and I gave them a hand ... A light mortar dropped in ten feet from me, and they're still picking out the metal. When the medics repair this leg I'm going right back to those boys...