Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would not be approved in the Soviet Union. Sports without toil and sweat, without the satisfaction of self-denial and self-conquest, are nothing more than an amusement." With that, Comrade Sorokin put his six strapping girls (four blondes, two brunettes) through conditioning exercises, starting at the crack of dawn, that left other competitors gasping...
...have a far-reaching influence on education . . . Because I so fully agree with you in that belief, I shall be happy ... to contribute to Harvard University for its Divinity School . . . $1,000,000 ... In the position which Harvard University and you as its president have taken, I see the dawn of a new day in the educational world. With sentiments of high regard, I am, John D. Rockefeller...
After specifying the amount of his donation, Rockefeller continued, "In the position which Harvard University and you as its President have taken, I see the dawn of a new day in the educational world...
...hundred residents of the town assembled in the school-yard to wait for the invasion. When the swarm of deputies took over the town, they did so to the strains of the Star Spangled Banner sung by Short Creek residents as they hoisted a fluttering American flag into the dawn breeze. This exemplary patriotism did not deter the Law, and the town's thirty-six men were taken to jail; the eighty-six now-lonely women went to foster homes in Phoenix...
Next morning, after a dawn serenade, the visiting couple attended church, then boarded the liner Gothic. As Queen Salote and her family circled the huge vessel in a government launch, the Gothic steamed off toward New Zealand. When the big white ship was hull down on the horizon, a radio message winged its way back: "We take away happiest memories of Tonga and the great and friendly welcome given us by your people. May Almighty God watch over them...