Word: dawns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from 1924; there has been no Republican governor since then. It got so dark by 1936 that there were only five Republicans in the state legislature (total seats: 83) and none from Utah in the U.S. Senate or House. Last week Utah's GOPoliticos were sure that the dawn had broken at last. For the first time since the state has had a direct primary (ten years), Republican voters outnumbered Democrats (67,000 to 54,000). They felt that the same ratio would apply in November...
Treachery at Dawn. It lasted for 40 hours. It ended in the way the Russians always knew they could end it: by treachery. Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky assured French officials-who made some of the most strenuous protests-of safe conduct for the Germans. Out of the darkness of their rooms, the weary prisoners came into the darkness of night, gratefully breathing the clean air of early morning...
They piled into two French army trucks and headed for freedom. Four blocks away two Soviet jeeps, bristling with Tommy guns, brought them to a halt. Almost instantly 75 Soviet-sector police swarmed from the shadows of a nearby building. As the Germans were taken, dawn was just beginning to fill the skies above the ruins...
...Dawn of a New Day." Roosevelt asked whether Stalin wished to take these matters up with China's then Foreign Minister T. V. Soong when he came to Moscow, or whether Stalin would prefer that Roosevelt take them up with...
Said Hopkins of Yalta (according to Sherwood): "We really believed in our hearts that this was the dawn of the new day we had all been praying for and talking about for so many years. The Russians had proved that they could be reasonable and far-seeing...