Word: dawned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curious way-even as a farm boy back in compact Marne, Mich. (1959 pop. 300). At five, he hopped into the family's 1908 Buick, began toying with levers-and smashed it into a tree. He also showed a tremendous capacity for work. Rising by the dawn's early light, he milked 20 cows, bottled the milk and delivered it before school. The milk route taught him to hustle ("Because the load becomes lighter"), and it also taught him that a touch of extra service can win customers. He built a snowplow, hitched a horse...
Ever since 13 Jews sat together at the Last Supper, in the historic dawn of a new church, the conversion of the Jews has been Christianity's hope, but there have been few signs of fulfillment. Now some Protestants seem to be launching a new movement to proselytize the Jews, reports Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg in the Christian Century. But, warns Hertzberg, it will not work, and should not be tried...
Crossing the river on a moonless night, the British army of about 4,800 was in position before the city at dawn. Had the French commander, the Marquis de Montcalm, waited for reinforcements, he might still have won. But he ordered the regiments available (some 4,000 men) to charge; the British held, then advanced. Their 32-year-old general, attired in a splendid new uniform and waving a cane, was an easy target for snipers. Just before victory was certain he fell, a musket ball through his lung. (Hours later, the Marquis de Montcalm also died of his wounds...
Many a Roman Catholic, accustomed to a quota of "Hail Marys" or "Our Fathers" as penance for his sins, would be shocked if the priest told him to give up smoking for a week or get up every morning at dawn. But just such penances are proposed in the latest issue of Rome's influential Vita Pastorale by the clerical monthly's editor. Father Stefano Lamera...
...first flicker of uneasiness was aroused in the defenders of Xieng Kho when a night reconnaissance patrol went out and did not return. Toward dawn the next day, a sentry spotted some shadowy figures and fired warning shots. As he did so, a red flare blossomed in the night, and from three sides mortar shells rained down on the village and its entrenchments. As the troops scrambled to their positions, they were raked by heavy fire from machine guns and 57 mm. recoilless rifles...