Word: dawned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Duels at Dawn. In Author Dinesen's stories-recalling E.T.A. Hoffmann and the famed Tales of Hoffmann - Judas Iscariot can be met jingling his silver in a igth century Neapolitan tenement; drunken officers duel at dawn and an artist dies nobly before a firing squad; a king and a poet argue the night through while a bored prostitute awaits their attention. The intricate plots are played out against lovingly evoked backgrounds -fur-blanketed sleds race over the midnight snow of Copenhagen; the golden sun of Italy flashes from white villa to blue...
...come to the end of a chapter or one of its five sections. As a result, there is little thinking about such ideas or about anything else. Nor are there any lasting reactions to scenes of potential beauty, be they dusk in the California grape-growing country or dawn in the streets of San Francisco...
Kerouac's use of pure Americana makes his language an effective vehicle at times. But it becomes merely amusing when he borrows from advertisements (A piece of apple pie is "nutritious, and ... delicious"), and elsewhere downright sickeningly romantic. ("Holy flowers floating in the dawn of Jazz America.") And when he tries to describe jazz, he reaches the heights of the ridiculous. ("ta-tup-EE-da-de-deraRup ...") It's difficult to see why, in the day of LP's, he thinks it necessary to compete with Charlie Parker on paper...
...Moonwatch teams have been alerted to watch at dawn and dusk for a "rumored" new Russian satellite to be launched on next Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory announced yesterday...
...that the satellite passes over the U.S. either in broad daylight or at night. In daytime the 23-in. sphere, more than 500 miles away, is invisible against the glare of the sun. At night it is invisible because it is in the shadow of the earth. Only at dawn or dusk, when the satellite is in sunlight against a background of fairly dark sky, can it be seen...