Word: dawns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What's worse, 1946 knows nothing of the University's traditions." The day might even dawn, he thought with sorrow, when a Harvard man might not know who a Yardling was, or what to do when he heard the cry of "Rheinhardt!" echoing through the Yard on a warm spring evening. "I don't suppose," he said, half-aloud, "that this year's Freshmen even know who Join the Orange Man and Bob Lampoon were...
...eleven of Kirn's SBDs took off in unusually bad weather for a dawn attack on the Jap seaplane base at Rekata Bay. Weymouth and Mildahn, with four other pilots, reached their target and gave the Japs a nasty surprise. From Henderson Field at dawn, four more SBDs took off on search flights, Weary leading one section, Purdum the other. They sighted five destroyers just out of range for dive-bombing attack. Other pilots took off for antisub patrol off Tulagi, to smoke out Jap land positions on northwest Guadal, to search for some lost pilots...
...Here comes the dawn of a new day, Flags. I wouldn't be surprised if it were a fairly uncomfortable...
...bridge for the U.S. came last week, not from a remembrance of things past, not from an actual theater of war, nor even from an American. Instead it came from the quiet announcement of a Briton; an announcement so underplayed that its significance did not at first even dawn on U.S. consciousness...
...mystery last week. Most reliable sources in London said that, while a few vessels might have escaped, all available information showed that the battleship Strasbourg and the cruisers Algerie, Dupleix and Colbert had been sunk, that most of the other 58 French warships in Toulon on that shattering dawn had at least been seriously damaged...