Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sailing in Uffa's 20-ton sloop Fresh Breeze, the Duke's Fox-designed Coweslip, and his slim Dragon-class sloop Bluebottle. But they had a fine time anyway. At his home, a converted waterfront warehouse, Uffa presided over the nightly after-dinner festivities that lasted until dawn. At a dinner for the Imperial Poona Yacht Club, he donned a pith helmet and led his cronies in spoon-hammering sea chanties. Said one Cowes pubkeeper: "There's pirates 'round Cowes at regatta time, and Uffa's the worst of the lot." Lusty Uffa Fox certainly...
...going to fly his trousers in triumph from my flagpole at home. But unfortunately. I was arrested before dawn...
Halos Askew. Against this backdrop, Brad and Val drift towards a hoked-up farewell. Brad volunteers for a suicide outfit with a D-day dawn mission, only to find that his last-minute C.O. is Val's other lover, John. As they make the beach yards apart, both men nearly buy it-but live to come out of it with a reluctant mutual respect. Back in England a few days later, with sacrificial halos slightly askew. Brad and Val call it quits: "She said, 'Turn your head away.' He knew she was leaving...
Those aren't the contours of a Navy man, mused the water-taxi pilot suspiciously, regarding one of his fares by dawn's dim light. Nevertheless, he said nothing as his passengers debarked at Buoy 25 in San Diego Bay, where the crews of three destroyers were beginning to stir. But back on the beach he confided his suspicions to the shore patrol...
...uncontestable as the grave, was no. The girls went to their beds. Eight hours later, when their mother looked in on the room which they shared together, all five were gone. Calling on his neighbors for help, Father Moonsammy frantically searched the darkness for the missing girls. At dawn he found them. Silhouetted by the eerie morning light, their five young bodies hung lifeless from branches of two wild fig trees just 100 yards from their father's house. Amid the wailing of friends and neighbors, the police announced the cause of death: suicide...