Word: dawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maybe the boys at San Francisco think that Morse Code will be sufficient. The spectacle of the heads of great powers having to rely on interpreters for even a simple exchange of salutations looms grotesque and barbaric in a world that has utilized the tool of language since the dawn of its history...
From the East. Out of the dawn on July 10, his commander of Task Force 38, Vice Admiral John S. ("Jock") McCain, sent off a horde of fighters to strike at the remnant of Japan's home-based air power. McCain's airmen prayed that the Japs would come out and give them another red-letter day like the "Marianas Turkey Shoot" of June...
Sure enough, Halsey struck again. Four days later his carrier planes thundered up again out of the dawn. Some struck Hokkaido (pop. 3,300,000), which had never been bombed before. Some struck northern Honshu. Some struck in Tsugaru Strait, where the railroad and automobile ferries run between Aomori (on Honshu) and Hakodate (on Hokkaido), almost the only link between the two islands...
...first faint flush of light that sometimes precedes the dawn is called the false dawn...
This week 20 of them descended (20 more were expected) on the little seashore town of Camden, Me., which calls itself "The Harp Center of the Universe." From now until September, except for the short hours from midnight to dawn, the ring of their gold-plated harps will argue with the soft whisper of wind in the firs and the beat of the sea against the cliffs of Penobscot...