Word: dawn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...third anniversary of his death (March 5) aroused wide resentment. Next day, following a number of unofficial party meetings, thousands of young Georgians demonstrated in the streets of Tiflis, carrying portraits of Stalin and shouting his praises. Three days later, to appease this outburst, the official Georgian Communist paper, Dawn of the East, devoted a whole page to glorifying Stalin. But having made this concession, Dawn of the East next day carried a demand that "provocateurs and enemy elements" in Georgia be crushed. Then orders came to "crush" the revolt. Some 15,000 party aides went to work "re-educating...
...local color, mostly bloodred. Some will doubtless regret Treece's crockery-clattering upsetting of the old round table. But the fact is that while good King Arthur could exist only in storybooks, Artos the Bear has enough gristle-and-bone reality to have actually galloped across the misty dawn of British history...
...countryside came to life with urgent Iranian cries and the lighting of torches, the wolf raced into the village proper. By dawn there were 16 more victims. At last, the animal was killed by a peasant armed with a mattock...
Personalizing Peter's Pence. In the lead story, Dawn, Father Udovic finds a packet of trouble in the collection plate. It is an envelope addressed to "The Pope," marked "Personal," gathered up in Father Udovic's campaign "to personalize Peter's Pence" by having the bishop, who is going to Rome, "present the proceeds to the Holy Father personally." For days the innocuous-looking envelope ticks like a time bomb in the bishop's "In" box. Father Udovic finally sends for the letter writer, a laconic little woman who grudgingly reveals that the envelope contains...
...Volume X (The Atlantic Battle Won) of his huge history of the U.S. Navy in World War II, Harvard's Professor Samuel Eliot Morison writes: "The Atlantic, which since the dawn of history has been taking the lives of brave and adventurous men, must have received more human bodies into its ocean graveyard during the years 1939-45 than in all other naval wars since the fleets of Blake and Van Tromp grappled in the Narrow Seas." And Rear Admiral Morison, U.S.N.R., adds: "Sailormen all, and passengers too, we salute...