Word: dawn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Every rose has its thorn, just like every night has its dawn. Just like every cowboy sings his sad, sad song...
...bells began to toll. In Caracas, Venezuela, a lone Marine sergeant strode across the lawn of the U.S. embassy while a soft rain fell, saluted the flag, then lowered it to half-mast. At U.S. bases from Korea to Germany, artillery pieces boomed out every half hour from dawn to dusk in a stately, protracted tattoo of grief...
...sector border, the 25-mile frontier that cuts through the heart of Berlin like a jagged piece of glass. As the troops arrived at scores of border points, cargo trucks were already unloading rolls of barbed wire, concrete posts, wooden horses, stone blocks, picks and shovels. When dawn came four hours later, a wall divided East Berlin from West for the first time in years...
...free minds, free markets, free speech and free choice. This reflects our faith that people are generally smart and sensible; the more choices and information they have, the better off things will be. To the extent that America remains an avatar of freedom, the Global Century about to dawn will be, in Luce's terminology, another American Century...
...room on the first day of class, thinking, "Well, I've never taken a real math or science class before, but hey, I'm here to learn." As you take your seat, listening to your fellow students talk while waiting for the teacher to arrive, it begins to dawn on you that 98 percent of the other people in the room are making jokes in which the punchline has something to do with the topology of a bagel. The thought enters your mind: "Perhaps I am too dumb for this class...