Word: dawned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Luck. Part of Brazil's failure to live up to her potentialities and aspirations is certainly traceable to the national character. The Brazilians' apocalyptic vision of their nation's future is itself a hindrance to progress. It encourages the comfortable idea that the brilliant tomorrow will dawn inevitably, no matter what men do or fail to do today. The common expression, "God is a Brazilian," is half-humorous, but it is also half-serious...
...that Lucky is "socially dangerous because of well-founded suspicions that he lives on crime and by crime." Just to help him be a good boy, the commission prescribed a virtuous regimen for Luciano, ruled that for the next two years he must 1) stay home between dusk and dawn, 2) roam no farther than Naples' near suburbs, 3) check in with the cops every Sunday, 4) avoid saloons, cafes, race tracks and all shady characters except himself...
Despite, or because of, this cautious arrangement, the two religious groups are vigilant rivals. At dawn on Sundays, the bells of Beirut's churches clang so loudly that good Moslems groan and cover their heads. At dawn on other mornings, the muezzins chant their calls to prayer over loudspeaker-equipped minarets, to the annoyance of sleepy Christians. Last week Muled el Nebi, the birthday of the Prophet Mohammed, rolled around. Moslems festooned Beirut in palm branches and garlands of electric lights. The climax was to be a torchlight parade...
Jazzman's World. Brubeck does not get to spend much time in his house on the hill. He is away six months of the year, living in the jazzman's restless world of all-night coach rides, smoky nightclubs and hamburger joints at dawn. Nowadays, the quartet travels in better style than in the days when it chugged cross-country in Dave's old car, with the string bass tied to the ceiling. But Brubeck still retains most of his frugal habits: he travels with one suit (two pairs of pants) that rarely gets a pressing...
Once Ataturk invited the diplomatic corps to a champagne party at his villa overlooking Ankara; when the binge ended at dawn, the diplomats, driving home, saw the corpses of the entire opposition leadership hanging in the square. With Ankara under his heel, Ataturk toured country districts announcing that Islam "is a dead and finished thing." Returning suddenly after eight years' absence to "that cesspool" Istanbul, he summoned notables to a grand ball. Before the band played a note, Ataturk himself stepped, chalk in hand, to a blackboard and for four hours lectured the jaded heirs of the Ottomans...