Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the dawn of integration day came, the Faubus fabric was even more tattered. His early-morning "March of the Mothers'' at Central High found only 15 curious bystanders-and one shaggy dog. A check of 21 Little Rock stores disclosed no run whatever on knives or pistols. And the only "caravans" converging on Little Rock were those of National Guard reinforcements called in by Orval Faubus...
Mutiny. About 300 navy men, defectors to the Castro cause, mutinied at dawn and quickly seized control of the Cienfuegos naval station, built on a peninsula in the town's harbor. They clapped pro-Batista officers in the brig and swept out through town in jeeps, carrying arms from the post arsenal. A 60-man troop of maritime police and some 200 pro-Castro civilians were waiting to join them. The rebels swept into Marti Park in the center of town, surrounded the pro-Batista national police headquarters and demanded surrender. The police refused. While two rebel navy planes...
They met soon after dawn Oct. 20, 1805. A "series of single combats of the most bloody ferocity," the battle reached its peak when ship jammed against ship, exchanging furious broadsides and grapeshot at point-blank range, with boarding parties hanging massed along the bulwark netting. The rigging of the French ships swarmed with grenadiers and sharpshooters-and it was one of these, alongside Nelson's flagship Victory, who, recognizing the great captain dressed in "a blaze of colour," took aim and mortally wounded him with a single shot. Nonetheless, by midafternoon the Franco-Spanish line had ceased...
...oldest name in New Mexico newspapering is borne proudly by El Crepús-culo de la Libertad (The Dawn of. Liberty), a twelve-page weekly in Taos (pop. 1,815), whose delirious typography and dissonant trio of editorial voices more often suggest the dawn of anarchy. Fondly known to its 2,505 subscribers as "El Creeps," the paper was started in 1835 by a Mexican priest. Today it still has an unusual publisher-editor: wealthy Bostonian Edward Clark Cabot...
Thirty minutes later, when his monitors woke him by radio, it was dawn. Methodically, Dr. Simons recorded the colors in his notebook (the sun flashed green) and took a urine specimen. By mid-morning the sun had warmed the inside wall of the gondola to 120° F. But the air of the capsule was cooled to 60°-65° by a compact air conditioner...