Word: dawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the eight-car B. & O. special rolled west across the U.S., he lazed happily in the bulletproof car (converted originally for Franklin D. Roosevelt), chatted with his official family, slept soundly. He was already awake when the train was jolted by a pre-dawn emergency stop in Indiana (an air hose broke and clamped on the automatic braking system...
...years of racing, he has once been ruled off all tracks for a year for rough riding. This summer he decided to take life easier. He quit as contract rider for the famed Greentree Stable, now sleeps until 9 a.m. instead of rolling out at dawn to gallop horses. His only flaw as a jockey: he sometimes tries to ride cheap horses as if they were stakes horses, confidently holding them back for a spurt that isn't in them. His chief talent, according to one horseman: "He thinks twice before other jockeys begin to think...
...bedded his exhausted and nerve-torn body on Miller's air mattress in the quiet seclusion of Adams House at dawn after he delivered what we consider the most brilliant of all the brain children of this issue...
...armed with spears and guns. His caravan of armored cars was stoned. Tribesmen insulted him by walking out on his speeches. Enraged, the Pandit called them "pitiful pensioners," an allusion to the fact that Britain pays them annual tribal subsidies to be nice. Gleefully, the League's newspaper Dawn editorialized that the Pandit should be made "honorary propaganda secretary of the Moslem League...
...subject was beginning to shine through again. The Rijksmuseum's restorers had been hard at work for nine months, washing away the grime and varnish, layer by layer, freeing the cool blues, greens and purples, the long-hidden faces. It would take another three months to bring full dawn...