Word: dawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Runner-Up. Joseph Stalin, Man of 1942, who in that year had started to roll the Hitlerites back from the Caucasus oilfields, was also beginning to look a little different to many Americans in the dawn light of victory-or perhaps more like his pre-1941 self. After dealing Hitler one of his two heaviest defeats of the year, Stalin's central armies had stopped on the Vistula, while those on the flanks pursued secondary aims. Then followed the ill-timed martyrdom of General Bor and his heroic partisans in Warsaw; the Moscow-sponsored Government at Lublin; the methodical...
...within two hours he was again brusquely awakened. This time lookouts could plainly see the shape of an unfamiliar (hence unfriendly) submarine conning tower in the murky dawn. At full speed ahead, Outerbridge pointed the Ward straight for the submarine. At 100-yards range he ordered the No. 1 gun to fire-the first U.S. shot of World War II in the Pacific. The second shot struck the conning tower. Four depth charges finished off what turned out to have been a Japanese midget...
...happiness was compounded of simple pleasures, the sight of the roads through the magnificent country, the cheerful little taverns, the abundance of good plain food, the clean fresh rivers where he bathed morning & night. Morning after morning he awakened before dawn, breathing the pure air and listening to the sounds of the forest, the wind in the trees, the bells on the horses, sometimes the distant howling of wolves. Often he lay awake at night, seeing the moon and stars through the treetops and listening to the subdued talk of the frontiersmen...
...Before dawn of the 7th, the 225-mile end run from Leyte Gulf through Surigao Strait and up into the Camotes Sea, had been completed. Almost a hundred craft under Rear Admiral Arthur Dewey Struble, a Normandy veteran, lay off shore. At 6:30 the destroyers opened up on the beaches with 5-inch guns; after 20 minutes, LCIs carrying rocket launchers belched their loads onto a 1,200-yd. beachhead. At 7:07 (because General Bruce likes sevens for his 77th), the first troops sloshed up the beaches, without a casualty. Most of the Japs had been sucked into...
Because the battle lines were everywhere, all Athens was a no man's land in which few unarmed civilians dared to venture. One chilly dawn British Lieut. General Ronald MacKenzie Scobie ordered tanks to take the ELAS and KKE (Greek Communist Party) headquarters on Constitution Square. A Sherman tank smashed into one building; airborne troops entered the other with the aid of new plastic explosives. The committees were captured, but not communist Secretary George Siantos...