Word: dawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holding up confirmation of Democrat Philip B. Perlman as Solicitor General. It was 3:35 a.m. before they finally gave up. Perlman was confirmed. At 3:50, disgruntled, unshaven and bone-weary after three nights of cat naps on cloakroom cots, the Senators tramped out into the pre-dawn darkness. The first, seven-month session of the 80th Congress was over...
...Thirty-four Puget Sound seaplane owners startled residents of Port Townsend, Wash, by converging on it soon after dawn, landing their aircraft along half a mile of beach, and then leaping out for the world's first "seaplane breakfast...
Then, gradually, the world began to close in on Erich. The older boys wanted their money. They took him aside, threatened to expose him to the principal, to the police, to his mother if he did not pay. It began to dawn on Erich that the "treasures" he picked up had value only to himself. He did not know what real money was worth, but he began to realize that 160 marks was more than he had any hope of getting, ever...
...white dawn of a Minnesota winter day, goateed Dr. William F. C. Heise put on his homespun suit, wing collar and black bow tie, and was helped into his greatcoat by his wife. One of the boys helped him hitch up the horses. When the doctor set off in the sleigh, two boys went along, whipping the horses through the big drifts. It was an emergency surgery case. Operating on his patient on a farmhouse kitchen table, by the light of kerosene lamps, Dr. Heise was glad to have his rugged sons on hand as assistants. Driving home afterward, they...
Dials in darkness, for dawn...