Word: dawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dawn the conference passed a resolution, approved by 52 of the 71 unions represented: "The conference denounces and condemns the grave acts of violence committed against the workers [by the Communists] during the recent political strikes. . . . The conference resolves to form without delay a new labor federation outside the C.G.T., which has deliberately violated its own statutes...
...Then on April 6, 1862, he was camped at Crump's Landing on the Tennessee River, in command of the 3rd Division, while Grant assembled his divisions at Pittsburg Landing, six miles away. Grant did not know that Albert Sidney Johnston, with 40,000 men, was near. At dawn lightning struck, and Grant's Army of the Tennessee was nearly driven into the river. Grant, off in Savannah, Tenn. at the time, was plainly at fault, but four times during the battle he sent messengers to Wallace, to hurry up replacements. Wallace's men did not reach...
Stabbed through the dawn...
...rest for the weary residents of Wigglesworth Hall was forthcoming from the University last night, as Business Manager Aldrich Durant '02 told petitioners that cessation of pre-dawn noises at the rising Lamont Library would be impossible because of construction schedules. He promised, however, to "cut out unnecessary conversation...
Plagued by early morning insomnia from overtime Lamont Library construction, 55 bleary-eyed residents of A through D entries in Wigglesworth Hall yesterday petitioned Aldrich Durant, business manager of the University, and the Student Council for a cessation of 6 o'clock dawn construction...