Word: dawning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...night before D-Day, few of the paratrooper comrades of TIME Correspondent William Walton tried to sleep. After midnight they turned out, climbed into EUR-475. They were the spear head; some of them would not live to see that day's dawn. Walton, a qualified parachutist attached to the outfit, crawled in with them, was soon over France. He cabled...
...White and the Seven Dwarfs and the three Perry brothers. We are told that the Perry boys under the expert guidance of brother Ray, who left Lionel Hampton in search of a more artistic and original form of music, will soon be right up there on top with Dolly Dawn, Al Dexter, and the rest of the "big time" bands. The fact that they have been booked by the Tic Toc and will open there next week is proof enough of their fine musicianship. No doubt they will take the place by storm and may even receive a bigger hand...
...London cabbie cocked his white head and his Homburg toward the sky. The dawn hid a mighty lot of bombers, and their extra thunder told him: "Something...
Time Surprise. If the Allies could not surprise the Germans about the place, they did surprise them about the exact time. Eisenhower disregarded the traditional requirement-high tide just before dawn-and compromised on the weather. Furthermore his tactical fighters had put out the eyes of the Germans: in the last few days before landing Allied rocket planes had smashed every radar station they could find on the invasion coast...
...Eternal City. It was Trinity Sunday and, through all the last stages of the advance on Rome, U.S. and Canadian soldiers could hear the church bells summoning the faithful to Mass. TIME Correspondent Will Lang had spent the night in a dugout under fire. At dawn he piled out and headed up in a jeep toward the sound of firing on Via Casilina. He cabled...