Word: dawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night last week, a converted C-47 of the small, G.I.-owned Burke Air Lines took off from Newark with 31 Puerto Rican passengers. Just before dawn, over the swampy flatlands near Melbourne, Fla., first one, then the second engine failed. The plane smashed through swamp pine, broke open like a melon on the soggy ground. Twenty-one were dead. Fifteen had somehow survived...
Just before dawn, three grey-hatted gendarmes rapped sharply at the door of a modest Athens villa. Kosta Tsakolos, head of OPLA (Communist execution squad) during the 1944 leftist revolution, opened the door. "Come with us," ordered a policeman. "I am not coming with you," said the terrorist chief. "Under Greek law you cannot make an arrest at a home during the hours of darkness...
...Greek leftists arrested by the Greek Government on charges of conspiring to set up a Communist state. Biggest catch in the net was 42-year-old Demetrios Partsalides, dapper, white-haired secretary general of the EAM, Communist-controlled leftist coalition. (Partsalides, also arrested a few minutes before dawn, did not quibble about the time...
...when Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov took off from Paris on his way back to Moscow. In the dawn, he flew across a continent which, for the first time since the dreadful but simple days of war, could see clearly where it stood...
...knew it would be a great success: "more terrible, perhaps, but yet more beautiful," than anything else he had done. A careful workman, he first built in his London studio, like a movie set, the cottage interior he intended to use.'Copying that on canvas, and painting the dawn stealing in the prop window, Fildes inserted the characters he had in mind: worried parents hovering in the shadows, their sick little girl feverishly sleeping in the light of an oil lamp, and the bearded doctor leaning over her, kindly and calm...