Word: dawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commander of a U.S. base in England said to his airmen: "May I have your attention, please? This is what we have been waiting for. This is invasion morning." His young men went out to their planes, and up into the Channel dawn...
According to Plan. The first step - -the beachhead - of the "final stage" went off smoothly. At Biak, largest of the is lands in the Schouten group, it was clear dawn. Offshore, the invasion task force under Rear Admiral William M. Fechteler hove to before the rock-pointed sandy beach at the southeastern heel of the island. From cruisers and destroyers poured a 19-minute barrage...
...affair's only casualty. At 3:45 a.m. a grimy mutineers' delegation asked for terms; above all, they wanted Greek political unity. Tight-lipped British officers listened politely, then told the delegation to go back, get properly cleaned up and return with an unconditional surrender. By the dawn's half-light the Greeks were back, clean and submissive...
...Hour before the Dawn (Paramount) is a picturization of W. Somerset Maugham's novel of that name. Its thesis: there's nothing wrong with a pacifist that committing murder won't cure. As a boy, Franchot Tone suffered a psychic shock when he shot his dog; after that he was a sourpuss at hunt breakfasts. "Now, if it was the birds that had the rifles," he would mutter...
George Ade watched the U.S. forget Artemus Ward and Josh Billings, the great humorists of his youth, and knew that one generation's wit is another generation's banality. He saw his own slang ("the cold grey dawn of the morning after"; "I felt like thirty cents") become shopworn clichés. And he came to believe that the only funny thing he ever wrote...