Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, reporters for the tabloid Daily News worked in relays to cover the dark-to-dawn activities of Actress Diana Barrymore, which reminded oldtimers of the antics of her late father John Barrymore. Because "my husband bores me," Diana began her evening by pub-crawling with an off-duty policeman ("He has a wife, two children and a Buick and must be nameless"). Returning home after midnight, she found her husband, Robert Wilcox, arguing with another rival named John McNeill ("It went on and on and I kept saying 'Shut up, boys, shut...
Father Leppich winds up his public speeches at about 10 p.m., then makes for the nearest Roman Catholic church to hear confessions. Often people of other faiths and of none, including Communists, turn up along with the Catholics. He finishes in the early dawn, then retires to the local parish house, where he sleeps briefly, nibbles at fruit, vegetables and milk, and prays when he has a free moment. "As a good Jesuit, I need three hours of prayer daily," he says...
That night the town crowned a queen, pretty Bernarda Morales, daughter of a warehouse watchman, and danced until dawn. For still a third day and night, the fiesta went on. Then, exhausted, Tehuantepec went to bed. Back of the bougain-villea-twined wall, a guitar plunked and a lazy voice rose...
...constantly in street and field "There is so much going on," he sighs, "so much material for an artist! You go back a hundred times to a place like the Fish Market, until you know just how a man lifts a box, say, or how the place looks before dawn. Then you're ready to make a picture-to put your own feeling into it. If many different kinds of people like the result, maybe it's good...
Energy Unlimited. Chairman Dean points out emphatically that the success of the breeder reactor is not the dawn of a new atomic millennium. Fuel supply is only one of the obstacles that stand in the way of atomic power at competitive prices. But the breeder eliminates any possibility that the world's supply of fissionable material will run out in the practical future. Under the system of burning only the U-235, each pound of natural uranium, containing .007 Ibs. of fissionable materials, was equivalent in energy to about 18,200 Ibs. of coal. The breeding system makes...