Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Valuable Lesson. It was a revolutionary discovery. Back at NBC he put his new theories to the test on a dawn-till-breakfast show that soon built up a fanatic following among Washington's thousands of live-alone Government girls. Encouraged, Godfrey began applying the same personal approach to his commercials ("Whew!" he would say after reading some copywriter's purple prose advertising lace undies). Everybody was outraged but his listeners, and when the listeners hurried to buy, sponsors and radiomen quickly calmed down. Godfrey had learned a lesson he has never forgotten: "They don't care...
...summon University policemen; near each light is a telephone connected like the light, directly with the switchboard. Even when there is no particular trouble brewing, and there usually isn't, the policeman must call in once every hour during the day, and every half-hour from midnight to dawn. When there is a really big disturbance, like last fall's Square riot, the switchboard becomes an intelligence center, directing police and telling curious people "why all those boys are out in the Square at this time of night...
...without a tremor of unsteadiness. Even in normal period he often awakens, apparently fresh, after only a few hours of sleep, tosses off vodka and tomato juice (a combination which he believes does not taint the breath), reads leases or studies maps and impatiently awaits the new dawn...
...insufficient trolley cars were so packed that the press called them sardine boxes. The homeward trek at nightfall conveys a strange sense of depressed urgency. Many Belgraders do not feel safe anywhere between their homes and their work; they flit off the streets like ghosts fleeing a graveyard at dawn. Here & there, watching the crowds from street corners or hotel lobbies, stood men either in uniform or in ankle-length black leather coats-which in the popular mind is the unofficial uniform of the dreaded security police, "Udruzenje Drzavne Bez-bednosti," called "Oodbah," formerly OZNA...
...places than to many rooms. Such a scheme was once tried and abandoned, but before the days of the six-bit fine. There would certainly be cooperation now, and fewer men would keep books in their rooms if the return was easier. Taking books back to Lamont just before dawn may be a small task, but it is a painful one in rain, snow or cold. The Student Council could do a lot of students a small good turn by working out some financially cooperative system with Lamont officials who might be reluctant to undertake the project all by themselves...