Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican revolution, held sway over the liveliest minds of the Spanish-speaking world. Disagreeing sometimes with his great fellow philosopher Miguel de Unamuno, he was to be found in Madrid salons surrounded by poets and duchesses, fulminating at Iberian decadence till hostesses swept the whole lot out at dawn. To lead Spain out of its self-centered provincialism into fruitful communication with the rest of Europe, Ortega founded the most famous Spanish newspaper (the liberal El Sol) and the most widely quoted Spanish review (Revista de Occidente) of the day. He launched political manifestoes ("Spaniards, our nation does not exist...
George Harris grew up on a 280-acre farm in Todd County, Ky., 100 miles or more from Joe Moore's home across the line in Tennessee. By the time he was ten, his pre-dawn routine included milking eight cows and helping feed the hogs and mules. The big breakfast that followed was easily worked off in a three-mile hike to school. Summers it was full time at chopping corn, suckering tobacco, pitching hay. By the time he was eleven he was plowing a mule to a double shovel, and the next year he was allowed...
...Ubico (1931-44), and makes "speaking ill of the President" punishable by prison terms of six months to three years. One of the first arrested turned out to be a pro-government editor whose words were misunderstood by informers; he was beaten, then hastily freed. Small boys up before dawn were searched (and found to be newspaper deliverers...
Poor Listener. With the Vizier out of touch, the Sultan gave in. Shortly before dawn next day, light tanks and armored cars converged on the palace. Squads of police materialized on street corners; troops lined the roads to the airport. At 7 a.m. the Sultan, leaning heavily on a gold-headed cane, his eyes veiled behind dark glasses, emerged from his palace for only the third and last time in his unhappy two-year reign (on both previous occasions, someone had tried to assassinate...
...dawn one day last week, the people of the Javanese kampong (village) of Tjidjantung began assembling in impassive silence to vote in Indonesia's first national election. Like some 43 million others across the island republic, Tjidjantung's 658 voters were mostly illiterate, indifferent to the issues, but they were plainly conscious of a momentous event...