Word: dawns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...struggle and turned back to the island to wait. ... If the night on the island was miserable, the one aboard the launch was indescribable. Waves rolled over the deck where we were sprawled wet and shivering, but we were still hoping we'd make Sumatra before dawn brought Japanese bombers...
...spirit of the first half of the volume is beautifully suggested by its French title, Cette Grande Lueur a L'Est (which the translator insipidly renders into Promise of Dawn). The young politician Jerphanion compares the magnetism of the Soviets with that of Verdun six years before: "There is something in it of that same sense of a distant melting pot, of a light shining through the darkness-a great blaze of light. ... It may be the dawn; it may be a conflagration. But whether we believe it to be one or the other, we are all agog...
...wrote Reporter Lee, "he volunteered to burn the enemy-held town of Samal. He crawled through the Japanese lines before dawn with five gallons of gasoline and walked behind the shacks where the Japanese were sleeping. He sprinkled the gasoline, threw a lighted match and fled...
...dawn one morning FBI men raided Terminal Island, a disordered conglomeration of tiny wooden houses, fish nets, rabbit warrens, where 2,000 Japanese lived right in the middle of Los Angeles Harbor, a stone's throw from the Navy's Reeves Field. Agents blocked the bridge, rooted through the narrow lanes of fishermen's huts, carted off 383 men for "investigations...
...surer than ever, although we may still have a few hours of darkness ahead, there will be dawn and victory...