Word: dawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dawn broke cheerlessly for both sides. The 1,400 striking pilots, out-of-pocket $850,000 in lost wages, had not yet won their fight for more pay for flying four-motored Constellations and Skymasters (TIME, Oct. 28). A three-man arbitration board would review the whole issue. T.W.A., out $7,000,000 in flying revenue, had nearly ground-looped. Growled Millionaire Howard Hughes, T.W.A.'s majority stockholder: "It will take a year to recover, and longer before T.W.A. can employ as many people again. . . . T.W.A. had lost $8,000,000 during 1946 before the strike. . . . You cannot destroy...
...bodies cooled and dawn of the twelfth day, the day of burial, began to streak the temple walls, the priests carried the charred remnants of the abbot and his aide to a pair of graves a li away. The 36 judges and executioners listed the dead men's crimes on a great sheet of yellow paper and nailed it near the temple doors. Solemnly, then, the priests surrendered to the police, said: "We have chosen to perish together...
...Cold Dawn. In the Republican dawn, Ohio's Congressman Clarence J. Brown, campaign director, crowed: "We will open with a prayer and close with a probe." But Joe Martin, the blacksmith's son, approached the New Day with a little more caution...
Saturday's dawn had not yet hit the hills of Hanover when a band of intruders of unmistakable crimson hue were trying to proposition "The Dartmouth's" late-working printer. Negotiations were soon interrupted by he appearance of the paper's imperturbable business manager, who thought nothing the print shop, and proceeded to peruse "the" morning editions...
...revolutionary armies, Emilio, at nine, became head of the family. Practically at once he shot and killed a man for molesting his mother. Hustled into a reform school, he escaped and joined the revolution himself. He fought under General Carranza against Pancho Villa, was captured, sentenced to die at dawn and escaped from a drunken guard. Later he fought with Obregón against Carranza, then against Obregón for General de la Huerta. Jailed again, he blew up his cell with smuggled dynamite, appropriated a horse and galloped north to the border...