Word: dawns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rommel had been expected to make a stand at Hellfire Pass, on the Libyan border. In a desert dawn, last week, some 30 New Zealanders, whooping and firing, scaled the high escarpment that blocks the route west. An Italian force of several hundred men surrendered after a quarter-hour of token resistance. They were bitter at their German allies. Where was Marshal Rommel? That was what the Italians wanted to know. When they saw him next. . . . They drew their hands across their throats...
...harried the advance of British and U.S. troops. U.S. motorized units raced along the coast and joined the amphibious forces of the British First Army when it landed on the beach at Bone, 60 miles from the border. In three columns the united armies marched over the border at dawn Nov. 14 and began to make their way over the sizable mountains that divide Tunis from Algeria. Ahead of them, Allied paratroops, which left Britain only four days before, floated out of the sky to assist the French troops already fighting in attempts to capture or neutralize the major Tunisian...
...Moslems. C. R.'s belief in the possibility of Hindu-Moslem agreement became more than a hypothesis when the Moslem League's mouthpiece, Dawn, spoke up loudly on his behalf: "The political situation, bad as it is, would not have been worsened by Mr. Rajagopalachariar's meeting Mr. Gandhi. . . . The very idea of victory while holding India on a leash must be agreeable to the die-hards and Blimps who would love to indulge in reminiscences about India being easily controlled with the small finger of the left hand. . . . All the unrest we have...
Algiers in the dawn of Nov. 8 was a white, triangular wound against the dun hills behind the harbor. Beyond its jetties, well out in the Mediterranean, a great naval concentration stood in from Gibraltar: the Royal Navy's battleships Nelson and Rodney, the aircraft carrier Argus, cruisers, destroyers and transports laden with U.S. troops...
...convinced that no one can live under any more of this and still it goes on. One of the men in the shelter sobs and sobs and we cannot help him. Another correspondent buries his face in his hands and sits that way hour after hour. At dawn, when we come out of the ground, filthy and shaken to the heart, five Jap Zeros come over the airfield and start skywriting above us. ... The troops stand gazing up. What are they doing...