Word: dawned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Volume X (The Atlantic Battle Won) of his huge history of the U.S. Navy in World War II, Harvard's Professor Samuel Eliot Morison writes: "The Atlantic, which since the dawn of history has been taking the lives of brave and adventurous men, must have received more human bodies into its ocean graveyard during the years 1939-45 than in all other naval wars since the fleets of Blake and Van Tromp grappled in the Narrow Seas." And Rear Admiral Morison, U.S.N.R., adds: "Sailormen all, and passengers too, we salute...
...dawn broke over Montgomery next day, tension lay thickly beneath an apparent calm. Thousands of Negroes walked to work through the rain in a nonviolent demonstration. Then, at week's end, Alabama's Governor James Folsom called for a Bi-Racial Commission to try to work out some new ways of putting the pieces back together in a city that would somehow never be the same again...
...Corporal Abd el Krim disappeared. Before dawn one morning last week, he reappeared, creeping up to the fortress' outer wall with 150 fellagha guerrillas leading mules...
...shooting them down, obligingly camps outside all night. By morning he is frozen stiff as an ice cube-even though the weather is apparently so mild that it does not raise a single goose bump on Debra's bare and dimpled knees as she rides off into the dawn in Granger's arms...
...after World War I. In A House of Children, written in 1941 and now published in the U.S. for the first time, Novelist Gary summons up memories of a rollickingly un-Victorian childhood in Ireland. Calling himself Evelyn Corner, Joyce Gary relives a child's world where every dawn is Christmas morning, with its stockingful of pranks and projects, all observed with passionate curiosity...