Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elected for a four-year term in 1954 (defeating Browning again in 94 of 95 counties), despite campaign charges-never disproved-that his father was involved in shadowy influence-peddling and kickbacks. Works hard to impress Tennesseans with the fact that his administration is based on clean living, honesty, dawn-to-dusk hard work, Christian fellowship, prayer. Principal accomplishments: mental health program, higher teachers' salaries...
...time he was condemned to death. When Diem refused to pardon him, Ba Cut asked to be shot like a soldier. One night last week 32-year-old Ba Cut wrote a farewell letter, asking his parents to care for the innumerable children of his nine wives. Then, before dawn, he was driven in an army truck to Cantho cemetery. Dressed in black, his waist-length hair now cut short, Ba Cut was led to the place of execution. Only then did he discover that his plea for a firing squad had been rejected; before him loomed the shining blade...
Shortly after 3 one morning last week, nearly 500 weary members of West Germany's Bundestag straggled red-eyed out of Bonn's slick, brass-trimmed Parliament house into the bright dawn. Behind them lay 16 hours of acrimonious debate which had ended in a half-step forward for West Germany's rearmament program: the passage, by a vote of 270-166, of military conscription...
...roaring '203 Roosevelt Field, only 20 miles from Manhattan's Times Square, was America's "Cradle of Aviation." There one rainy dawn in May, 1927, Charles Augustus Lindbergh took off for Paris; within the next 40 days Clarence Chamberlin set out for Berlin and Richard Evelyn Byrd took off for the Continent, landing in the French surf. Roosevelt saw Wiley Post and Harold Gatty fly off in the Winnie Mae one June day in 1931, return eight days, 15 hours, 51 minutes later, having set a new round-the-world mark; seven years later Douglas Corrigan roared...
Unruffled at first, Hagerty grew tense as the prospect of an operation drew closer. But under the strain, he worked energetically-and seldom gave way to his short temper as he shot the facts along. In the Saturday dawn, he read a Washington Post and Times Herald editorial righteously observing that "the White House Staff will do well to continue its policy of keeping the people frankly and completely informed." Snapped Hagerty: "What the hell do they think I've been doing...