Word: dawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dawn of 1944, the Invasion Year, fingering through the Channel mists, lights a new Britain. This is not the Britain of Stratford, of grazing sheep, of humdrum shopkeepers running an empire; not a Britain sorely wounded but unconquered by the Luftwaffe; not a Britain brooding over Tobruk, sighing with relief after El Alamein. This is a Britain in the full tide of action, of imminent victory...
...news secondhand from communique and Soviet papers. At Kharkov, for the first time in the memory of the oldest Moscow writer, they were allowed to cover a Russian news event at the scene. A dozen U.S. and British reporters and one Frenchman left Moscow's Metropole Hotel before dawn, drove to an airfield, flew at housetop height to Kharkov. Interpreters translated for them during the proceedings, then transcribed their stories speedily into Russian, telegraphed them back to Moscow for cabling. A Red Army officer couriered dispatches to telegraph offices...
Latin Americans sometimes call Bolivia the "loose kidney of South America." This week she underwent a minor operation: a pre-dawn revolution staged by Army and Nationalist groups. President Enrique Penaranda was deposed, and a junta led by bespectacled Professor Victor Paz Estenssoro took over. "The new government," said Professor Paz quickly, "in no case will alter the position [of Bolivia] on the side of the United Nations...
...typical escort mission Cummings' crew chiefs readied their Thunderbolts before dawn. Then the muddy-floored briefing room filled with leather-jacketed pilots. They listened to Wild Bill's parting advice on the flight plan and tactics, took off. The crew chiefs gathered around the loudspeaker to "sweat out" their pilots and planes...
...amazingly well (if you go back stage in the cathedral you notice with what extraordinary ingenuity and thoroughness-and solidity-the whole thing is put together). ... It was a night of a full moon which half the time was lost in fire clouds, and from midnight till dawn H.E. bombs and incendiaries fell all over the City. ... In a little time great tawny clouds of smoke, rolling in a sumptuous Baroque exuberance, had hidden the river completely and there we were on the dome, a Classical island in a more than Romantic Inferno. It was far and away the most...