Word: dawns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oppenheimer hop on TIME'S Nov. 8 cover as a result of Dewey's defloration? Did you "stop the presses" . . .? Let us readers backstage to peek at the pied type and the cover that fell to the floor around dawn Wednesday...
...first light of dawn, soldiers carrying huge bowls of steaming rice cautiously picked their way down the trench-laced narrow streets. A donkey hitched to an ancient wooden-wheeled cart, loaded with shining black 105 mm. shell cases, munched slowly...
...friends, and a landscapist who portrays only two localities. His new pictures, on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery last week, owed nothing to the prevailing distortions of Paris: they were in the straightforward, realistic U.S. tradition of Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper. Bleak as a December dawn, they seemed a startling contrast to the cheerful, crop-headed young man who had painted them...
...Mexico City's pulquerias, sad-voiced tenors strummed guitars and sang: "In this year of nineteen hundred and forty-eight a comet appeared in the sky. Have a care, señores, have a care!" Each dawn last week the comet could be seen in the eastern sky, shooting out its long mane of white fire. The tabloid Prensa Gráfica blamed it for the five slight earthquake shocks that rattled the city during the week...
...brightest comet of 1948 was visible this week, but only early birds and milkmen got a good look at it: the comet could be seen only for a short time before dawn. In the north temperate zone its rising tail appeared above the southeastern horizon just ahead of the sun. The best view was from a hilltop away from bright city lights...