Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wall of Water. After a night of cloudburst, sheriff's deputies roamed the little (pop. 2,885) cattle town of Ozona, 75 miles north of the border, to cry a warning before dawn. Church bells rang and sirens wailed, but too many people stayed to wait and watch for water in normally dry Johnson's Draw. At 5 a.m. the water came; a 30-ft.-high wall that crashed through town, carried away houses and cars, killed 15 people...
Mendès and his pretty wife, Lily, drove off to the Elysee Palace for the formal visit to President Coty, and finally, not long before dawn, the new Premier went to bed. But in less than four hours, he was up and beating the political bushes for men who would join him in his 33-day marathon. By week's end Premier Mendès had a Cabinet notable for its youth (average age: 47, the same as the Premier...
...Somewhere over the border" Castillo Armas this week proclaimed a "provisional government" and issued his first fiery statement. "The dawn of liberation illuminates our land," it said. "The glorious struggle has begun against tyranny, treason, deceit and shame . . . Assault the garrisons of the Communists and capture them. They are cowards!" A certain amount of hyperbole is doubtless permissible in a manifesto issued on such an emotional occasion; Castillo Armas probably knows quite well that some Communists are cowards and some are nothing of the sort. And while he may regard Fellow Traveler Arbenz as a tyrant or a traitor...
...that time he knows what ails Percy. The unhappy ape, gazing "forlornly out of his cage, [yearns for] the freedom to make love to Edwina of his own choice, to persuade and implore her, to aspire and range." One night the professor releases Percy and, sure enough by dawn, "romantic and full of nostalgia " he is back. Gently, Percy lays his hand upon Edwina. "No questions disturbed her soul ... She welcomed him home." But the professor, unscientifically overcome by the sentiment that he is a friend of the family, modestly averts his eyes...
...young Hecht managed to do just the opposite. He recognized no "characters" in Shakespeare, only "words [that] seemed to hang in the air like feats of magic." He was only 16 when he landed the job of "picture chaser" on the Chicago Daily Journal. He was "sent forth each dawn to fetch back a photograph . . . usually [of] a woman who had undergone some unusual experience...