Word: dawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...views expressed this time by men from their Houses and extra-curricular groups, undergraduates may themselves vote on disputed issues. This revolutionary referendum technique, proposed by members of the investigating group to make certain that their work would not be discarded by a Council majority, may well presage the dawn of the long-awaited new day in Harvard student government...
...dusk, throughout the Roman countryside, loudspeakers suddenly blared an incitement to landless farm workers: "Landless poor, collectively occupy the land of those who have too much. ..." The signal for the expropriation: church bells tolling at dawn. The inciting voices were Communists and left-wing socialists. But the motive force for expropriation was months of disappointment at the Republic's failure to satisfy the land hunger of the rural proletariat...
Died. Stewart Edward White, 73, sportsman, explorer, author; in San Francisco. In his best-selling novels (Blazed Trail, The Silent Places, The Rose Dawn) he shared with a whole generation of U.S. men & boys his experiences as Black Hills gold-rusher, Wyoming cowpuncher, Hudson Bay camper, African lion hunter...
...grey half-light of dawn the waiting fishermen netted sockeyes by the thousands in the Strait. Captain Nels Floe in his 71-ft. Bligh Island reported a record catch of 15,225 fish in one haul; in one day 160 other seiners took 600,000 - worth about $1 apiece. As the sockeyes reached the river's mouth, an armada of 3,500 gillnet boats was waiting. Some novice fishermen were war veterans out for a quick stake. In other boats, the whole family lent a hand; enthusiastic moppets helped parents pay out cork floats and nets over creaking wooden...
Most books of this sort pass lightly over prehistoric times, deal rather with nations, kings and priests, beginning in the "dawn of history" and winding up in the age of the flush toilet. Stewart covers the same territory, but with an eye for different things...