Word: dawned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They brought out hammers and chisels and whacked away at the hated symbol of imprisonment, knocking loose chunks of concrete and waving them triumphantly before television cameras. They spilled out into the streets of West Berlin for a champagne-spraying, horn-honking bash that continued well past dawn, into the following day and then another dawn. As the daily BZ would headline: BERLIN IS BERLIN AGAIN...
...Paris museum called the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers. Nearby, an enormous pendulum swings silently in the gathering darkness, mute testimony, as a 19th century French scientist named Foucault first demonstrated, to the rotation of the earth. Casaubon is here because he suspects something terrible will happen before dawn. If he is correct, then he and two friends, playful inventors of a plot to rule the world, do not have long to live. In their machinations, have he and his coconspirators accidentally stumbled across some dangerous truth? Or, % perhaps worse, have their own words created forces that will...
...crack of dawn...
...devastation of San Francisco -- and a calamity for Santa Rosa and San Jose and every other California city from Eureka to Salinas -- began at 5:12 a.m., at the first light of what would have been a lovely day. A dreadful howling sound shattered the dawn, as the earth suddenly rumbled, vibrated, heaved and pitched, wobbling in a demonic dance. "The whole street was undulating," recalled police sergeant Jesse Cook. The quake shook the city, in words that became folklore, like a "terrier shaking...
...dawn of the 1950s, the photojournalist was monarch of all he surveyed. No medium other than photojournalism challenged the status of the great picture magazines like LIFE and Look. The best photojournalists who survived World War II and then Korea were acknowledged giants. The 1947 founding of the photographers' cooperative Magnum had established the principle that picture takers should own the rights to their work. (Previously, rights had belonged to whoever commissioned a project.) Photojournalism could even claim a | theoretical foundation, as in Henri Cartier-Bresson's idea of the photographer as instant organizer of reality...