Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seven-year veteran of tough meets all over Australia. Lorraine Crapp, 19, winner of two gold medals at Melbourne and holder of every women's free-style record from 200 meters to 880 yds., was only twelve when she began racing in competition. Dawn Fraser, 20, the Olympic 100 meter free-style titleholder, was 13 when she swam in her first big race. Realizing that Aussie swimmers are often champions before they get out of high school. U.S. colleges (Yale in particular) have been importing them for years...
...reasons uniquely British. Budget Day is the House of Commons' most festively expectant annual occasion, signaling the power of the purse, which raised the House to supreme authority in Britain. Some M.P.s arrived soon after dawn, hours before the Chancellor of the Exchequer was due to show up carrying the battered dispatch case used by Gladstone and by every Chancellor since. A few Tory traditionalists wore black silk toppers. Sir Winston Churchill, who attended his first Budget Day in 1901, beamed from his bench below the gangway, sporting a huge red geranium in his lapel...
...garden for a characteristically French game of boules (lawn bowling), throwing his hands in the air, wailing "Ayayaya" when he missed. For the rest of the long Ramadan night, Mohammed V alternated Moslem prayers with U.S. movies (The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Desert Caravan), retired at dawn to sleep until midafternoon...
...dawn last week one of the world's largest aircraft carriers, the U.S.S. Forrestal, her vast grey bulk towering out of the blue Levantine waters, steamed slowly into Beirut harbor. Hours later a party of Lebanese dignitaries headed by President Camille Chamoun climbed aboard, and the carrier headed back to sea for a demonstration of its capabilities. Among them: tight formations of dive bombers and jet fighters screaming over Beirut's rooftops, lifting away over the snowcapped mountains to the east and fanning out through the Bekaa valley between Lebanon and Syria...
Third Day shows the grey dawn of the first landscape, with the first signs of life emerging from primordial chaos. Says Kovarsky: "This tree has the twist of a motherly woman. The cloud is the symbol of rain. The red seed, poppy seed, is a symbol of growth. The sun-light...