Word: dawned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place one morning at Santiago's Campo de Tiro firing range, in sight of the San Juan Hill, where Teddy Roosevelt charged. A bulldozer ripped out a trench 40 ft. long, 10 ft. wide and 10 ft. deep. At nearby Boniato prison, six priests heard last confessions. Before dawn buses rolled out to the range and the condemned men dismounted, their hands tied, their faces drawn. Some pleaded that they had been rebel sympathizers all along; some wept; most stood silent. One broke for the woods, was caught and dragged back. Half got blindfolds...
...fired, and the bodies jackknifed into the grave. Two more prisoners stepped forward, then two more and two more-and the grave slowly filled. Lieut. Enrique Despaigne, charged with 53 murders, got a three-hour reprieve at the request of TV cameramen, who wanted the light of a full dawn...
...Sukarno, champagne and slivovitz brought in off Tito's ocean-going yacht Caleb (Seagull), the two Presidents and their wives rang in the New Year in memorable fashion. Dancers trampled the palace lawn with polkas and Partisan Kolo. At midnight Tito and Sukarno embraced and kissed. At dawn the revelers were dancing in their shirtsleeves. A rainstorm broke; they moved inside. Not until 7 a.m. did the party break...
Seldom had a government been so thoroughly housecleaned between midnight and dawn. But to Castro, flushed with victory, the exodus was a bitter cheat. Arriving in Santiago, he took the big (5,000-man) Moncada fortress from the surrendering army without firing a shot, declared Santiago the provisional capital of Cuba as reward for its support. In Las Villas, ruthless, Red-loving Che Guevara executed the last Batista holdouts...
Holdouts. Batista's lesser cops, in no position to flee, fought on. Radio and television stations chattered out the prowl-car numbers of known killer cops, and the rebels tracked them down. By the next dawn, rebel blockaders had trapped at least four police cars and gunned the occupants dead. Rebels besieged police snipers, fought confused night battles among themselves. For three days and nights, bullets whined in Central Park, in downtown office buildings, in suburban Vedado. An estimated 40 persons died...