Word: dawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Murch's paintings, on view in a Manhattan gallery last week, had all the dim, cold calm of false dawn. They were done with dead-eye accuracy, in greenish gobs of shadow laced with silvery threads and buttons of light. He had put the paint on thickly, Murch explained, because "that helps create a thing out of the painting itself." Among his table-top subjects were a dead bird, a dead fish poised on a clinker, an ancient phonograph, and assorted eggs, lemons and potatoes...
...dawn broke over the Arena yesterday, a hardy bunch of Kirkland and Dunster hockey players were hard at work playing a game. About the time alarms began to ring in the Houses Dunster was ahead 4 to 2. And as the average man was trying to coordinate mind and body enough to get out of bed, the game twitched violently and lay over dead, with Kirkland...
...intramural world received no major shocks yesterday. Dunster beat Kirkland, 36 to 26, and Leverett beat previously undefeated Eliot, 34 to 29, in A League basketball; the Squash League resumed play after its vacation layoff; and the gallant hockey players prepared for their first dawn practice of the pre-exam season today...
...submarine U-47, commanded by Lieut. Gunther Prien, surfaced off the Orkneys. Prien noted in the log: "The English are kind enough to switch on all the coastal lights, so I can obtain the most exact fix . . ." At dawn the next morning the submarine lay submerged at a depth of 270 feet outside Scapa Flow. At 7:15 that night it surfaced and the crew ate a warm supper...
...regret that as a woman representative I must say such things from this rostrum . . ." Mrs. Yamashita's opposition colleagues roared, "Shame on the government," voted to discipline Izumiyama. By 2 a.m., Izumiyama was sober enough to shamble before a caucus of his party comrades and apologize. At dawn he resigned from the cabinet...