Word: dawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sept. 1, 1939, the fishermen of Puck, Poland, lifted their faces to the grey dawn and saw man's new way of making war. It was the blitzkrieg, paced by the new instrument of air power. It rolled across Puck, rolled across Poland, rolled across Western Europe. Eight months later, in the space of 7½ minutes, it buried 30,000 Hollanders in the rubble of Rotterdam...
...cost of keeping alive, like the cost of living, had gone up since 1801. It had gone up even since that day, 100 months ago, when the dawn broke over Puck...
Later that night, the trumpeting din of elephants fighting aroused the sleeping zoo. The zoo director rushed to Chang's pit, found him attacking Mandjullah. On the floor he found Rietmann's dead body. This time there was no one to plead for Chang. At dawn the keepers' rifles cracked four times. Chang, the elephant with imagination, was dead...
...dawn of the Renaissance which produced Raphael, there were painters whose art, compounded of form and fire equally, remained a major triumph of the Christian world. The city of Florence was no bigger than Peoria, Ill., but in a single century-the isth-she blossomed with the paintings of Masaccio, Ucello, Botticelli, Luca della Robbia, Fra Angelico, Fra Filippo Lippi, and a score of others...
Blood in the Landscape. By the chilling glare of the atom, the dawn of the Renaissance seems a time of earthly happiness. It was indeed an age of Faith and Hope, but not often of Charity. Revenge was a point of honor, and perennial feuds cursed the children of families and states alike. The blood of the unjustly slain, which flows like an ever-widening river through the embattled landscape of European history, was already running deep...