Word: dawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...company stood by. Also on hand if needed was a battery of floodlights, in case the overtaxed Tyson electrical system gave way. Outside the grilled enclosure of the Tyson home uninvited guests danced in the street to the Tyson music. The party ended soon after 6 a.m., with a dawn swim at Bailey's Beach and a gourmet's breakfast...
...dawn of last New Year's Day he was with the U.S. 71st Infantry Regiment of the 44th Division in Western Europe, when the regiment's advance was stopped by machine-gun fire. MacGillivary crept through deep snow to within three feet of an enemy position, shot the two Germans who manned it. The path was clear. Several hours later, six more German machine-gunnists blocked the 71st's advance. Again Sergeant MacGillivary went out alone. He got two German crews with grenades, a third with a submachine gun, before he was knocked out of action...
...dawn on Friday, but dusk for Dai Nippon. Emperor Hirohito had approved the surrender proposal to the Allies. Five days before, the Japanese radio still talked of 100 years' resistance, and there seemed little question of Japan's ability to hold out for months at least. Then in shattering succession came atomic bombing and the Russian declaration of war. The concussion destroyed more than Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...their parties. But those who kept their minds on grunion splashed madly through the surf, snagging the slippery fish with their bare hands (nets are illegal). Since the tide often reaches its peak about midnight, grunion parties usually run late and long. Some end in a rousing pre-dawn fish...
Through the brunt of the storm, the well-clad Blitzen made seven to eight knots, at a cost of three jib sheets. With heavy seas still running at dawn and the boat heeling at 45°, Co-Owner Ernie Grates took a sailor's chance: to save a spar, he shinnied 50 perilous feet aloft to replace lost pins in a spreader. (Co-Owner Murray Knapp, who is cook and bottle washer, distinguished himself by being beaned with a flying frying...