Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rabat soon after he returned from the Sultan's palace. El Hajou took one look at them, made a dash for his big white Cadillac, and roared off into the dawn. The police, full of pro-Arafa men, were careful not to catch...
...third largest city and NATO's southeastern headquarters, homes of Greek NATO officers were pillaged, and the Greek consulate was razed. Turkey's Prime Minister Adnan Menderes declared martial law in the three cities. The army moved in with tanks, imposed a curfew and, by dawn, had locked up more than 2,000 rioters. Throughout Turkey more than 4,000 stores and 78 churches lay gutted...
Yokoyama began his volcanic life in turbulence. He was born in a bamboo grove, where his mother had crept to escape the swinging swordsmen of feuding samurai factions at the dawn of the Meiji Era. Sent to a Tokyo art school, Yokoyama soon proved his talents for 1) outstanding brushwork and 2) consuming sake. Advised by a professor to drink either one sho (3.8 pints) of sake a day or nothing, Yokoyama took to the bottle in earnest. Today he begins his day by downing a prebreakfast glass full of his favorite sake brand, "Inebriate Soul", during the rest...
...remarkable discovery is that, by the standards of today, Fanny was in some ways a better writer than her husband. She could not evoke a mood; Stevenson was one of the great mood-evokers. Neither could she give one the sight, smell and taste of an island dawn, a rainy day in Edinburgh, or a starlight night aboard ship. But she had directness, forceful earthiness and an eye for the ridiculous...
...first lover. Courtier Serge Saltikov, was "handsome as the dawn; there was no one to compete with him in that." But as soon as the required heir, the future Tsar Paul II, was born, Saltikov was snatched away by Empress Elizabeth and discreetly dispatched to Sweden...