Word: dawned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane radioed the tower at Malacanan Palace to have President Ramon Magsaysay's car at Manila's Nichols Field at 3:15 a.m. Then there was only silence. Two hours later, when the plane failed to arrive, the silence became ominous. By dawn, Philippine naval vessels and air-force planes, later joined by the U.S. Air Force, were scouring the lovely inland sea between Cebu and Manila. By radio and whisper, the news spread: the Philippines' beloved President Magsaysay was missing. The long morning wore on. In the barrios, priests offered up special prayers, and Filipinos clustered...
Gibraltar into Volcano. But if Policyholder Shanks is as predictable as the dawn, Prudential President Shanks is not. In the insurance industry, he has erupted with such force, in the pursuit of new ways to sell insurance and new ways to invest the Pru's billions, that he has turned the Rock of Gibraltar, the company's famed trademark, into something resembling a volcano. By dint of his ideas and exertions, Shanks has not only become one of the most respected spokesmen for U.S. life insurance, but has also made the Pru, whose head offices are in Newark...
...jeep deeper into the cane country around the range as "an American sugar planter who could not speak a word of Spanish," dressed "for a fishing trip"-which proved convincing to patrolling troops. The reporter, with escorts loyal to Castro, reached the foothills at midnight, slithered on afoot. At dawn, through whistled recognition signals, Matthews and Castro were brought together...
...marks of Missouri mishaps. Bess's broken left ankle was still in a cast after a recent household tumble (TIME, Jan. 14); Harry's scalp was bandaged over a six-stitch wound he got when he slipped on an icy sidewalk outside his home during a dawn workout...
National Problem. Wherever he went on his dawn-to-dusk schedule* -San Angelo, Texas, Woodward, Okla., Clovis, N. Mex.-Ike faced the same brown, dismal picture. He sympathetically questioned the farmers and ranchers ("How much water are you pumping? What did you get out of your dry fields?"), frequently found in the hard-pressed people a surprising resoluteness-a "chins-up" attitude, as he expressed it. And they sensed that, because the President was there, their problem was now recognized as a national problem...