Word: dawns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...darkness before dawn things began to go wrong. On the flight engineer's board, instrument needles flickered away from their reassuring positions. An outboard engine began to lose oil; it flowed back over the wing like blood in the moonlight. The plane began to shudder; the far starboard engine died. Its feathered prop stood stark and motionless. The plane rumbled on uneasily, unevenly. The other starboard engine sputtered and died, and the craft began to lose altitude. Up forward, the radio operator methodically clicked out an SOS, giving his position. The white-faced passengers cinched themselves into life jackets...
Although she made her first movie 14 years ago, and has since done some skilled acting (Gone With the Wind, Hold Back the Dawn, To Each His Own-which won her the Academy Award in 1947), few people in or out of Hollywood know very much about Olivia de Havilland. "Livvie" has long been the subject of much amateur psychoanalysis among her friends and acquaintances...
With players scurrying off for vacations, the House League yesterday barely managed to round out its last full day of play that included six basketball games, one hockey game, and two squash meets. Fighting to the end, Leverett and Adams players will meet tomorrow at dawn in the final game...
...hockey game, a dawn affair between Lowell and Kirkland, saw the Deacons win easily, 4 to 1, as penalties kept the Bellboys in their own territory throughout...
After weeks of dawn and midnight practice, House League hockey got under way today. Lowell edged Adams, 3 to 2, while Leverett crushed Dunster, 7 to 3, and Eliot beat Kirkland...