Word: dawns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dawn next morning North Dakota's collegians piled into farmers' trucks. A facultywoman, a Ph.D., volunteered to drive one. Football squads turned out en masse. Canceled were football games and homecoming celebrations. In the fields, 4,000 of the State's collegians were joined by thousands of high-school youngsters, to thresh wheat, pick potatoes, top beets, feed the student army in farm kitchens. Cried a teachers' college president: "The finest community spirit I have ever seen displayed by any student body anywhere...
...opening scenes of June 13th show shiny, steel-helmeted troops marching in the dawn's early light through the streets of Moscow. Cameras on balloons record their morning descent. Then follows the terrible shelling of Sevastopol. Five, six-story buildings tumble like childrens' block houses. Guerrillas, armed with makeshift guns supplied by the local blacksmith, recapture a village. Tank battle scenes were made through gun slits in the front Russian tanks. After disabling Nazi tanks with shells, machine gunners in a Soviet tank rake Germans trying to escape into the woods. One is hit just as he emerges...
Even with their ranks thus reduced, the workers found that they were too much for the Marlboro farmer. Taking their agricultural duties seriously, they had aroused themselves at dawn to arrive at the farm by 8 o'clock--only to find that their employer was still enjoying his holiday leisure...
...dawn we arrive at a half-finished building [all nonmilitary construction in Russia stopped at war's outbreak] in which a brigade staff is headquartered. The street bordering it on the north along the German lines has been smashed by mortar fire. At one intersection, where I remember the policeman who used to direct traffic, a tommy-gunner now stands, showing the passing soldiers a dip in the road invisible to the Germans...
...edge of the clearing. The hut is quiet. Voices recede and stop. The jungle night takes over . . . a big cat prowls around looking for something to kill. . . . Presently she materializes out of the night. Instead of reaching for the coffee cup she presents to me, I take her hand-dawn would reveal a rather bulging hammock with a hastily dropped coffee cup under...