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Word: dawn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dominguín returned to Spain. The duke ordered that Angelita be watched closely during the day, locked in a third-floor room every night. At dawn one morning, Angelita tied bedsheets together and slid to freedom. A few minutes later, she was in Dominguín's arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Love in the Afternoon | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

...salute from Mount Lycabettus woke Athenians at dawn. Church bells tolled and flags drooped at half-mast. Newspapers appeared with black-framed front pages. Places of amusement were closed all day, and for half an hour all traffic stopped, streets emptied, doors were closed and blinds drawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Innocents' Day | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

...Dawn-Chilled Face. In a climax reminiscent of the horror of D. H. Lawrence's The Prussian Officer, Gerald prepares to punish the boy for still another theft. His sadism unleashed, he pummels Duncan to death and then "gently [kisses] the pale, dawn-chilled face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gothic Tale | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

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