Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maspero's The Dawn of Civilization: Egypt and Chaldea...
...dawn, two white Kenya policemen climbed into a jeep and drove down the rutted trail that leads from Nyeri into the forest at the foot of Mt. Kenya. It was still dark among the camphor trees, but Policeman Ian Henderson knew that Mau Mau sentinels were watching, and he drove without headlights...
...where it would be invisible. Most of the rest of the time it would be passing over the sunlit earth, and would look no brighter at best than a tiny fragment of the moon as seen by day. Best time to look for a small satellite would be at dawn or dusk, when it would be shining brightly above the dim-lit earth...
...museum caretakers the most was a ferocious-looking Arab who habitually did research in the museum at 5:00 a.m. No man would not quake upon seeing the blue-suited white-turban-clad Arab, standing amidst dummy Anthropology exhibits, suddenly turn about and stare at him in the dawn stillness in Peabody Museum...
...Before dawn, some 400 Mau Mau came out of their strongholds to fight in the open. They first raided the white man's clubhouse at Thika, 34 miles northeast of Nairobi. They dragged out the African barman and slashed him to bits with their sharp pangas; they tore up a picture of Sir Winston Churchill, downed all the mineral water in the bar, and made off towards the police post at Kandara, 16 miles away. At 9:30 a.m. they confidently attacked the post in bright sunshine−but the British were ready and waiting. A relieving column...