Word: dawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reappeared in Los Angeles. Seven years ago he had been operated on for a brain tumor. He had not had a steady job since 1941. Last spring he made a brilliant musical comeback in Rome, Milan, Paris. Last week he was found lying on a street corner just before dawn, his head cut and bruised. Two strangers in a nightclub had offered to drive him to another spot to hear some real jazz, said Dr. Klemperer, and on the way, they suddenly robbed him of $30, threw...
...Every village is prey to roving gangs. Groups of scared refugees flee through the fields as gangs of 15 to 30 men trudge the highways, armed with long, dangerous-looking clubs. From the crest of one hill, I could see five villages burning. At Mandra junction at dawn on March 9, 2,000 Moslems swooped down on Hindu and Sikh quarters, looted and fired every building. Gangs stopped two trains outside Rawalpindi and hauled Sikhs, easily recognized by beards and turbans, out of the coaches and beat them to death on the platforms...
...them, while ours just seem to be writing off the top of their minds. Why, when people have discovered Partisan Review on the shelf, their eyes have lit up with pleasure, and as you know people's eyes don't light up any more, what with the dawn...
When the coroners and hospital trainmen arrived to search for the 24 dead and the 121 injured, scores of shaken wordless, half-clad survivors still wandered aimlessly in the mountain dawn. Nobody knew what had caused the Red Arrow to leave the track. For the moment, Conductor McCormick was too preoccupied with his strange presentiment to care. In the Pullman he had hesitated to enter, a half dozen people had died...
...Route" is the broad Moscow avenue down which the Packard limousines from the Kremlin streak every morning before dawn, carrying commissars and marshals to their country dachas after the night's work. Everyone who lives on The Route lives under special surveillance by the NKVD (now the MGB and MVD), and the NKVD has cause for suspicion. The U.S. visitor, James Ferguson, is introduced by his merry Russian friend Mitka to a significant little group of people who meet on The Route as conspirators...