Word: dawned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Politics at Dawn. Clements had his candidate waiting in the wings: Bert Thomas Combs, 47, onetime state Supreme Court judge who barely lost to Chandler himself in the 1955 gubernatorial primary. But long before Clements got Combs launched, the anti-Chandler field got crowded by the gubernatorial announcement of Wilson Watkins Wyatt, 53, onetime Louisville mayor (1941-45), and personal campaign manager for Adlai Stevenson in 1952. Backed by the Stevenson-prone Courier-Journal and Louisville Times, Wyatt was too much of a city egghead to suit Clements' plans...
Novak, 26, ensconced with her parents in the nearby villa of her great friend, Aly Khan, an absentee host. At a party in Cannes staged by Soviet film folk, Kim and Gary danced till dawn. Hearing that Grant will go to a Moscow movie festival in July, Kim unabashedly cooed: "I'd love to go with...
...primitive labyrinthine waters of Florida's Everglades, wake to the spontaneous burst of sound and color of the Mangrove Coast, where thousands of roosting ibis, egrets, anhingas and spoonbills toy, and where silver tarpon jump by moonlight and coons and otters feed and play. They fish under the dawn-pink sky out of San Diego, and in the cool basins of the Colorado mountains. And they can just laze...
Sample: about dawn one day last month 47 newly commissioned West Point second lieutenants streamed into the Ranger school dugout on a mountain near Dahlonega in the rugged forest of North Georgia. For 72 hours they had dodged and fought blank-firing Aggressor troops (Russian-like insignia and uniforms) across 50 miles of tangled underbrush. By map and compass they traveled at night, kept on alert all day (about two hours' sleep each), set off live explosive near TVA's Blue Ridge Dam. For food they had one C-ration can, a share in a live chicken...
...invaders set sail at dawn one day in the 55-ft. yacht Mayari from Batabanó, a fishing village on Cuba's south coast. Three were drowned upon landing at Nombre de Dios, including one leader who preached "Never lay down your gun" so convincingly that he could not let go of his as it dragged him down. The remaining invaders moved into nearby Nombre de Dios in such manly fashion that three love affairs quickly blossomed. When he was asked to marry the three couples, the village priest refused: "These hurried romances need a cooling-off period...