Word: dawns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Jap bombs gutted the earth which bore Confucius-the earth which for millenniums had been worked by patient, quiet peasants-delicate filigree landscapes, white herons over blue lakes at dawn, shimmering moonlit waters of Li Tai-po are less popular themes in Chinese art. Nowadays Chinese artists turn their talents against the little monkeys without tails who have ravaged their country. Sometimes their weapon is anger, but often it is the peculiarly Chinese weapon of mockery...
...have been preparing for this for a long time and now the time has come to quit practicing and start doing! At dawn tomorrow we are going in and land United States Marines by the carload onto the Jap-held Solomon Islands!!! And I hope the Jap Fleet comes to the rescue, because we'll land all over them...
...Germans sent storm troopers into a village to punish its residents for not reporting for compulsory labor. A gallows was built. When dawn came, three German officers, one the commander, dangled from the crossbeam. Guerrillas had attacked during the night...
...Stalingrad's best streets stood Apartment 21-A. It had had a corner sheered off by a German bomb, but Sub-Lieutenant Svetkov and a handful of grenadiers held the building for nine days. Barricades, trenches and machine guns were prepared to control the street intersection. At dawn twelve heavy German tanks, loaded with shocks troops, attacked. Hits from anti-tank guns set five afire. Seven rumbled on. Svetkov and his men had no more anti-tank ammunition, so they hurled grenades from the windows. Three more tanks were disabled. Four came...
...history of the Parsimonious Freshman's year is Too Lugubrious to mention. Suffice it to say that by the end of the year the Light began to Dawn upon him. Clutching his pencil and paper he began to calculate the profits and losses of his False Economy, and discovered the following...