Word: dawned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clothesline a rubber plumber's helper fitted with two flashlight batteries and a one-tenth candlepower bulb. The airplane flew 110 m.p.h. at 7,000 ft, which simulated the motion of the satellite in its orbit. The dim bulb gave enough light to look like the satellite at dawn or dusk, when it is in sunlight and the earth below is in darkness...
Each day at dawn an explosion of sound reverberates through the hills above California's Carquinez Strait, 30 miles up San Pablo Bay from San Francisco and the Golden Gate. At the sandy tip of a new superhighway pushing across the hills from Richmond to the industrial town of Crockett, an army of mammoth machines comes noisily to life; their motors growl and their exhausts spout blue fumes into the mountain air. Tough, broadnosed bulldozers hungrily tear up the soil; potbellied scrapers scoop and level it; lumbering compact-ers press it down with their massive weight. Directly before...
...fight started. They made it up in a nearby bistro. There they consumed a large number of bottles of wine, and exchanged coats several more times . . . Biff! Bang! Wallop! And they were at it again, landing up in the gutter, where they went to sleep, and woke up at dawn to find that they had been robbed...
...untroublesome stone-and-mud village where the French had always had a cordial welcome. The French dispatched a patrol from the nearest outpost 15 miles away. They found half a dozen dead men surrounded by hysterically screaming women, tearing their cheeks with their fingernails until the blood came. At dawn, said the women, 100 uniformed fellaghas had surrounded the village. They had seized the local policeman, cut off his hands, gouged out his eyes, then killed him and his five children. Then they rounded up every male over 15 and herded them off down the rocky ravine toward Kasba Mechta...
...Each dawn the valley's farmers awoke to find their vines and fruit trees cut down. Hundreds of cattle lay dead. Tons of hay were ruined. The total damage over two months was estimated at more than $5,000,000. When the police tried to stop the violence, Communist Deputies in Rome complained about "government repression of working-class aspirations," and the police solved the problem by refusing to let even willing workers go to work...