Word: dawned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Batista himself wound up in the Dominican Republic with his wife and one son, his other seven children in New Orleans, Jacksonville and New York. As the news broke across Havana in the early dawn, citizens put on the arm bands of the rebel 26th of July movement and tumbled into the streets, firing pistols and Tommy guns in riotous...
Whether they dreamed of it or dreaded it, the statesmen of Western Europe had all come to accept the fact that a new era will dawn on New Year's Day 1959, when the long-planned European Common Market finally begins to forge France, West Germany, Italy and the Benelux nations into a single economic unit. Last week, in dramatic preparation for the new era, ten European nations carried out at one fell swoop the most far-reaching international currency reform since World...
...show went on, great stretches of it proved to have a grim sameness. Time after time the screen was filled with shots of rampaging mobs with hate in their eyes, or of steel-helmeted troops fanning out through a tense capital in the fateful hours before dawn. For 1958 was another year when men from Caracas to Khartoum lost patience with the established order, a year when nations abruptly smashed familiar institutions and sent their onetime idols off to political oblivion ? or violent death...
That night Banda toured the city in a friend's car, grumbling all the while that he was "followed everywhere" by cops. At a mass meeting, he exhorted 3,000 wildly cheering fans: "Go to your prisons in your millions, singing Hallelujah." "Kwaca!" he cried to indicate the "dawn" of freedom. "Ufulu!" he roared, his face twitching, and the crowd roared back, "Ufulu! Ufulu! [freedom]." "My brothers and sisters in the hell of Southern Rhodesia," he cried, "I am prepared for anything. Even my ghost, my ashes will fight federation. Are you with me?" When the cries...
...year beginning July 1, the outlook still is for a deficit of upwards of $3 billion. This may well be trimmed as Government income rises with business. Few economists believe that inflation can be ended, barring a depression, since a rising price level has been with mankind since the dawn of time, and is almost inevitable in a dynamic economy. The problem is to keep it within bounds-under a 1½% price rise per year. In 1958 prices did not rise even that much. The forecast is that they will remain stable...