Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first luxury is rising at 5 a.m. Tiny has poetic visions of a rosy-fingered dawn, but ". . . this is a real dawn. The sky is a bitter dirty gray color to which drops of orange blood are slowly added . . . Human life is at its lowest ebb. This is the time most people die." Tiny wants to live, even though she finds that she is a portable blood bank for the dread tsetse and squadrons of dive-bombing mosquitoes...
Smash, Burn, Kill. It was a moment the Communists had been preparing for, a fact well known to Chief Minister Morarji Desai of Bombay State, who is often spoken of as Nehru's heir apparent. Before dawn, on Desai's orders, police arrested 435 Communist, Socialist and United Maharashtra Party leaders. The Communists had prepared for this eventuality, too. Secretly trained alternates swiftly swung into action. At their direction, hundreds of thousands of Maharashtrian workers dropped their work and swarmed out of dockyards, textile mills and railroad shops into the streets, shouting "Death to Nehru!" The rioters blocked...
...last week, complained the manager of the Chamber of Commerce, the "only tourists we get are wearing uniforms." Philippeville's arched streets were dark and deserted by all but armed patrols and police cars from dusk to dawn. Social life had come to a standstill as Europeans huddled at home afraid to gather in crowds. For more than a year, native raiders led by a 34-year-old ex-carpenter named Zighout have staged an average of two attacks daily in the region. Once last August, they swept through town killing some 80 Europeans and warning the rest over...
...following message (which may or may not have reached Moscow) that Sorge had in his possession the day before his arrest by the Japanese on Oct. 15, 1941: "Japanese carrier air force attacking U.S. Navy at Pearl Harbor probably dawn November 6 stop source reliable...
...baker, as busy and happy as all the seven dwarfs. Homespun Ave has the American flag tattooed on his right arm and a bad case of the verbal staggers: "If I don't rockabye now I'll be fit for naught but the ravens in the dawn." Mama is as p'ain as an apron and just as happily inoffensive. As the growing apple on the Grayleaf tree, eleven-year-old Tone is sprayed with the customary disinfecting bromides...