Word: dawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Comes the dawn...
Next day, he was up at 4 a.m., in time to watch the dawn patrol take off. Through the long morning and most of the afternoon he missed no part of the show. That evening the President was back aboard the Williamsburg, poring over a batch of administrative work...
Deadline at Dawn. Paul Lukas, Susan Hayward and much Odets about a corpse (TIME...
Most Egyptians looked as if they were smelling something. They were-the West Wind. One day this week the 17,000,000-odd dwellers along the Nile arose at dawn, took several deep breaths, and went picnicking. It was the Shamm en-Nesim, the one common holiday for all Egyptians-Moslem, Christian and Jew. Once a Coptic feast day, the Shamm en-Nesim means literally "the smell of the West Wind." Irreverent Americans in Cairo call it "sniff-the-breeze day." Egyptians believe that a lungful of the departing spring air will ward off summer languor-provided the sniffer manages...
...sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre...