Word: dawn
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...dawn each morning last week, a procession of anxious diggers trudged five miles to the chapel in Cristalina to light a candle at the feet of St. Sebastian, praying that he would guide them to a rich strike. Many other amateurs, discouraged by the boomtown prices and the depth of the veins, were selling out. Said one: "God put the crystal near the surface, but the devil pushed it to the bottom." As the amateurs quit, professional mining outfits were moving in to buy up their claims and get down to where the devil pushed the crystal...
...week's end the rebels were still falling back on Faradje and Aba. But they were not everywhere in retreat. At dawn in midweek, Simbas made a determined attack on Paulis that was beaten off only when 28 planes hit the rebel positions with rockets. Farther south, the district around Fizi was held by Simbas, and a resident wrote bitterly to a Leopoldville newspaper that "government forces would have been here long ago" if only "there had been white hostages in Fizi...
...Rebekah Harkness is a trim strawberry blonde and mother of three. She rises each morning at dawn, pulls on a pair of tights and spends two hours taking private ballet lessons. "I must do it myself," she explains, "or else I'd just sit back and write out checks...
Traditional sword dancers, precisely terraced rice paddies, and a shot of a misty Chinese village at dawn, sent ohh-ing intakes of breath throughout the house. Mao appeared on the screen, and some of his U.S. fans--sitting in a bloc on the right side of the theatre--applauded, while a half dozen Chinese graduate students--conspicuously on the left--shhhhed loudly...
...humor in a sound like "good ain't fer ever and bad ain't fer good." Playing tricks with words is his lyrical delight: "The moon is high and so am I / The stars are out, and so will I be-pretty soon. / But come the dawn and it will dawn on me you're gone." That sounds like pretty fluid stuff, particularly the way his pronounced but easily understood accent runs it together...