Word: dawns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poland a German war criminal saw his last dawn. Convicted of sending 4,000,000 people to death, Rudolf Hoess, former commandant of the Oswiecim (Auschwitz) extermination camp, was hanged on the same gallows where many of his victims had died...
...last morning in Stalingrad I got up at dawn and strolled down to take a ferry across the Volga. One does not have to be long on the Volga to realize that its part in Russia's traffic is about what the Mississippi's was to ours in Mark Twain's day. Remembering Mark Twain made a lot of things suddenly click. For as the Volga is like the Mississippi of his pilot days, so these people living along it are like the free-&-easy, friendly Midwesterners of his books. There were neat, small, wooden houses with...
...told to go to Bordeaux for my American visa. Months later I escaped to London. Then, exactly on the dot, two years after applying, I received my American immigration visa. I arrived in Manhattan at night and immediately went to a friend who lived near Inwood Park. At dawn I rushed to the window to see the skyscrapers. I saw only the park's rocks, trees, squirrels and blue-jays. I decided then and there that I was going to like it here...
Minutes before the deadline-6 a.m., Easter Monday-Schwellenbach's last appeal was spurned. In Manhattan's dawn Miss Eileen McDonnell removed her headset, took the elevator down to the street and picked up a picket sign. Across the country, by time zones, galloped Mr. Mayer's horse. At 9 a.m., E.S.T., workers quit the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. offices in Los Angeles and for the first time in history a telephone walkout was nationwide...
Nine people, four of them Law School students, scrambled out of a two-story frame dwelling on Sumner Road at dawn yesterday before a raging fire that killed 65-year old William C. Gardner, operator of the rooming house, and seriously damaged first floor rooms...