Word: dawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...predatory man whose miscast eyes were cocked over all the craft and spoliation in Pennsylvania. Quay had been content to run the machine. Curiously, Penrose's chief ambition was to be mayor of Philadelphia, an aim which he might have achieved if he had not been photographed one dawn leaving a Philadelphia brothel. Pennsylvania's voters, however, sent him to the Senate for 24 years...
...eleven men for whom this night held no dawn ate a last supper of potato salad, sausage, cold cuts, black bread and tea. At 9 p.m., the prison lights were dimmed. At 10:45, U.S. Army Security officer Colonel Burton C. Andrus walked across the prison courtyard to set the night's lethal machinery in motion. The whole prison was permeated by the thought of impending death. (The Courthouse movie announced the next day's attraction: Deadline for Murder...
...dawn came, field authorities started rescue parties across the fir-patched barrens. There seemed to be no logical explanation for the crash, The plane's flight from New York to Newfoundland had been without incident. There had been a delay at Harmon, but for purely routine reasons. Weather had shut it out of Gander Airport, where a relief crew waited, and CAB rules had kept the plane grounded for twelve hours while its pilots slept. An engine check, made during the delay, revealed that all its power plants were functioning perfectly...
Died. Berna Eli ("Barney") Oldfield, 68, daredevil of the dirt track at the dawn of the motor age, first auto racer to drive a mile a minute, whose name gave a U.S. generation a synonym for speed; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...rumor grew all the next day. The downpour stopped, as dramatically as it had begun, shortly after dawn. Downtown streets were free of water by noon. The sun came out. San Antonio still waited tensely. Then the suspense ended. The sudden storm had killed six people, made 5,000 temporarily homeless, caused $5,000,000 in damages. But the dam, with the water from a mile-long lake lapping up within six feet of its rim, stood firm...