Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NATO troops from the island on the ground that tensions have eased so much since Geneva. In answer to Mollet, the Bonn government last week sent Paris a bristling note that all but accused the French Premier of adopting the Soviet line. Germans thought they heard in Mollet the dawn echoes of a familiar French dream: an unspoken alliance with Russia against a strong Germany...
...mistress to editorial conferences (so his wife, Evalyn Walsh McLean, charged in a divorce action) and made the old Post building on Pennsylvania Avenue the scene of hard-drinking, all-night parties, including one in which he arranged for General John J. Pershing to head off into the dawn wearing the cap of a Western Union boy. At the end of the McLean regime in 1933, the Washington Post was a paper celebrated in song (by John Philip Sousa's march bearing its name) but $600,000 in debt for newsprint for its shrunken circulation...
...dawn broke over the small Algerian fishing port of Collo, the grim shape of a French cruiser materialized out of the darkness. Even as French children swarmed down to the beach to cheer, Georges Leygues' 8-in. guns swung shoreward and thundered salvo after salvo into the hills behind the town. Minutes later, French planes strafed the target area. Marines swarmed ashore from the cruiser, trucks carrying Senegalese troops roared up the road from Philippeville and swung up into the hills. It was the first combined air-sea-ground operation of the French in Algeria, aimed at the concentration...
...Seraglio. The Victorian era, according to Pearl, was "an age when prostitution was widespread and flagrant; when many London streets were like Oriental bazaars of flesh; when the luxurious West End nighthouses dispensed love and liquor till dawn; when fashionable whores . . . rode with duchesses in Rotten Row, and eminent Victorians negotiated for the tenancy of their beds; when a pretty new suburb arose at St. John's Wood as a seraglio for mistresses and harlots." In the rising tide of Victorian morality, one female Londoner in every 16 became a whore; there were 6,000 brothels and about...
...when terrorists set fire to a garage in the heart of the city. Minister Resident Robert Lacoste arrived just in time to face down an angry committee of mayors who were threatening to strike if some 100 terrorists in French jails were not executed immediately, clapped a midnight-to-dawn curfew on the whole city. But the tide of hate ran on. In a single day 47 rebels and two Frenchmen were killed. The. dead bodies of another 100-odd victims were turned up in the course of the week. The president of the Algerian Assembly resigned, declaring: "The Franco...