Word: dawns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...growing throng, like tipplers shunted from bar to bar by a series of closing hours. At last the only remaining light is the fatally attractive beam that beckons from inside the net. The fish swim in and Dr. Sasaki hauls up his net. In the cold light of dawn, the light-minded fish are headed for broiling (yaki zakana...
...Coach Harlow leads a Crimson eleven into the sixty-fourth Yale game, and his own ninth, he sees the great recent transition of football as "from a game to hard work." On the eve of his dawn departure yesterday with his 38-man squad, Harlow looked around at his four assistant coaches and observed: "A fellow's idea of a good time used to be to get out there four days a week and scrimmage, and then hit a guy in another color jersey on Saturday." Now practices are a combination of dancing class and Yogi, as each man must...
Hughes' first plans called for a formal gathering at dawn. He had even cached a stock of brandy to entertain his cutaway-adorned guests. However, the austere aspects of the London affair made a less formal gathering imperative to good taste...
...paint-splashers, who left Tuesday afternoon from the vicinity of Harvard Square in three waves at 1:30, 4:30, and 5:30 o'clock, eluded Blue defenders of the cliff just before dawn and with scouts posted on the flanks, lowered two of their number down the side of the precipice...
...gossip. Before long, Bertie Charles Forbes was on speaking terms with many a tycoon. He became the rich man's Poor Richard and Boswell. As a Hearst columnist and later as publisher of his own Forbes-Magazine of Business, "B.C." found a hundred ways of repeating the obvious ("Dawn will come. . . . The self-starter never allows his steam to run down. . . . Everything may not be for the best, but let's make the best of everything...