Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FROM the deep-frozen midriff of Canada to the near-tropical bottoms of the Rio Grande, an unusual army of 8,000 or more hunters scoured the continent last week. Theirs was a gentle but rugged sport: they were afield from dawn till dark, slogging "Over hill, over dale,/ Thorough bush, thorough brier/Over park, over pale,/Thorough flood, thorough fire . . ." in pursuit of their quarry. When the chase was over, the hunters had no trophies to show, for they did their hunting with nothing more deadly than binoculars and telescopes. They were devotees of the flourishing sport of bird watching...
...year-old fop to rid himself of his mother's apron strings by sharing his bed with her attractive nurse. To varying degrees, the rest of his family approves of his venture, and forms a cheering section outside his bedroom door. Overnight a remarkable change takes place: by dawn the young man has shed his drab finales and pale timidity for a West Coast sport coat and a jut-jawed aggressiveness. This action is marked by an exchange of witticisms which in places would hardly do credit to a reform school stag. For authors Theodore Hirsch and Jeanette Patton, this...
...early for me to be tied down with a wife?" Onetime U.S. Vice Viceroy Charles ("Lucky") Luciano went to Rome to plead with bureaucrats for a cancellation of the curfew order that keeps him holed up in his Naples apartment from dusk to dawn (TIME, Nov. 29). After cooling his heels in a hall for five hours, Lucky had a ten-minute audience with Interior Ministry officials. He came out hopping mad; the bureaucrats had not let him speak, instead stared at him as if he were a malevolent curiosity. "I don't want to stay in this country...
...Moscow should decide some mid night to attack the U.S., 900 Soviet heavy bombers could be over North America by dawn. Some 300 Red planes, manned by elite crews and loaded with nuclear or thermonuclear bombs, would streak toward vital U.S. target areas. The others, carrying TNT and fire bombs, would serve to divert and confuse U.S. defenses...
...flickering light of oil lamps, five gravediggers. working before dawn in London's Highgate Cemetery, dug up the moldy, plain elmwood coffin of Karl Marx, father of Communism, whose remains had lain undisturbed for almost 62 years, ever since he died peacefully in his small London house. They reburied him in a larger Highgate lot, some 200 yards away. There, Britain's Marx Memorial Committee will erect a polished black granite monument (estimated cost: $14,-ooo) with a reverent inscription...