Word: dawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost ended sooner. In the gloomy dawn of May Day a German colonel bearing a huge white flag appeared at a ruined side street held by the Russians. "Will the Soviet Command receive emissaries to discuss negotiations?" he asked. Red Army Major Belousov agreed and walked with the Germans toward their lines, trailed by a Russian soldier with a field telephone. Suddenly a shot cracked out. Belousov dropped with a Nazi sniper's bullet through his head...
...this the SS guards-both girls and men-had watched coldly and unmoved. I saw them too-fat, fleshy and inhuman. Now they have a different role in the camp. Under British guard they are made to collect the dead and drag them to a mass grave. From dawn to dusk the SS girls and men alike hold in their arms the bodies of the men, women & children whom they killed...
...What's worse, 1946 knows nothing of the University's traditions." The day might even dawn, he thought with sorrow, when a Harvard man might not know who a Yardling was, or what to do when he heard the cry of "Rheinhardt!" echoing through the Yard on a warm spring evening. "I don't suppose," he said, half-aloud, "that this year's Freshmen even know who John the Orange Man and Bob Lampoon were...
...Chungking the spring dawn was milky when an MP on the graveyard shift picked up the ringing phone in U.S. Army Headquarters. At first he heard no voice on the other end; then a San Francisco broadcast coming over the phone line made clear to him why his informant could find no words. A colonel came in. The MP just stared at him. The colonel stared back. After a moment the MP blurted two words. The colonel's jaw dropped; he hesitated; then without a word he walked away...
...Chungking. Dawn poked through the chill Yangtze mist. Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, ever an early riser, was at breakfast when an aide brought him the news. He left his food untasted, withdrew for meditation. Hours later he sent his thoughts to Mrs. Roosevelt: "I am deeply grieved. . . . The profound sorrow of the Chinese people . . . the deep sense of gratitude they bear for him. . . . His name will be a beacon of light to humanity...