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...dawn broke over Montgomery next day, tension lay thickly beneath an apparent calm. Thousands of Negroes walked to work through the rain in a nonviolent demonstration. Then, at week's end, Alabama's Governor James Folsom called for a Bi-Racial Commission to try to work out some new ways of putting the pieces back together in a city that would somehow never be the same again...
...Corporal Abd el Krim disappeared. Before dawn one morning last week, he reappeared, creeping up to the fortress' outer wall with 150 fellagha guerrillas leading mules...
...shooting them down, obligingly camps outside all night. By morning he is frozen stiff as an ice cube-even though the weather is apparently so mild that it does not raise a single goose bump on Debra's bare and dimpled knees as she rides off into the dawn in Granger's arms...
...after World War I. In A House of Children, written in 1941 and now published in the U.S. for the first time, Novelist Gary summons up memories of a rollickingly un-Victorian childhood in Ireland. Calling himself Evelyn Corner, Joyce Gary relives a child's world where every dawn is Christmas morning, with its stockingful of pranks and projects, all observed with passionate curiosity...
...first luxury is rising at 5 a.m. Tiny has poetic visions of a rosy-fingered dawn, but ". . . this is a real dawn. The sky is a bitter dirty gray color to which drops of orange blood are slowly added . . . Human life is at its lowest ebb. This is the time most people die." Tiny wants to live, even though she finds that she is a portable blood bank for the dread tsetse and squadrons of dive-bombing mosquitoes...