Word: dawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After two days, Philadelphia's authorities decided to act. Before dawn about 1,000 police, in cars and motorcycles, on horses and on foot, were deployed around the plant and in the neighborhood...
Deadline at Dawn. Cops-&-killer drama with Paul Lukas, Susan Hayward, Bill Williams...
...last Friday's cold, grey dawn, two tall and dead-serious Royal Canadian Mounted Policemen knocked on the door of an Ottawa apartment. When the door opened, they walked in. Shortly they walked out again-with the sleepy occupant...
...cold winter's dawn this week the grey and battered troopship Argentina hove into New York harbor after a nightmare voyage across the Atlantic. The passengers were 451 British wives of American G.I.s, and their 175 children. Nine days before, they had left Southampton alternately singing There'll Always Be an England and God Bless America...
...Goes Down, which earned its author, a Florida housewife, more money than any first novel ever received prior to publication ($20,000 from the Doubleday-Doran Novel Contest, $125,000 from the M-G-M Annual Novel Award). Life is never dull for Lillian, because Willowspring is astir from dawn to dusk with miscegenation, class conflict, drunkenness, antiSemitism, anti-Catholicism and incest...