Word: dawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Will Lang of TIME was one of the seven American newsmen who waded ashore with the American troops when they made their surprise landing just below Rome, joined a battalion moving up for the first attack at dawn-as he had often done before...
...foot through the mountains to Cassino. ("By his cheerful sharing of all dangers and hardships he has come to be considered a member of the 'All-American' Division," Commanding General M. B. Ridgway wrote.) And true to form, in the first attack from the beachhead below Rome, dawn found Lang being spattered with mud from exploding German shells right up in the very front lines...
...joined a battalion moving up for the first attack at dawn. We turned left at the first intersection and passed three huge silhouettes by the roadside. "Tanks. That's good. As long as they stay away from our doughfoots," someone muttered...
Shortly before dawn the battalion commander, burly Lieut. Colonel John Toffey, stopped his men at an abandoned farmhouse and set up his command post there. The medics took over the crude workshop, and began unpacking packages and plasma bottles in the dark. The Colonel ordered most of the men into the long, smelly stable for safety, but sat himself down at the rear of the building with a portable radio...
...moon Dr. Joseph Fort Nerwton did not have to get up at 6 o'clock on weekday mornings. After eleven years the Philadelphia Episcopalian rector had given up his syndicated daily newspaper column, Everyday Religion. The flood of readers' letters that had put him to work at dawn's crack was beginning to subside...