Word: dawns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of Education, such unanimity is recognized as not only exceptional but of high significance. To one who has listened for years with considerable dismay to the "educators and school men" belaboring the "professors" and vice versa, this unanimity seems like the dawn of a welcome day. I am obviously a biased witness, but to me the first four chapters are a heartening sign that college professors and school teachers and administrators can come to understand each other's difficulties if they will put their minds upon the task. For I think...
...second plane, piloted by Captain Francisco Ponce, buzzed over San Salvador. At dawn Pilot Ponce dived his Lend-Leased North American attack bomber straight at the National Police Barracks, killed six of the defenders with his ten bombs. Wounded by antiaircraft fire, he managed to fly on to the haven of a Guatemalan airfield. There he claimed that he had dropped his bombs in self-defense...
...they scattered toward the parked U.S. fighter planes and bombers. Rear-area technicians (some of whom had never before seen a Japanese close) grabbed carbines and rifles, pitched in to fight a battle that lasted almost two hours. The Japs managed to burn a few U.S. planes, but by dawn the invaders were dead, some of them by their own grenades...
...Pacific is no longer the same ocean. Its blueness and its vastness remain, but all else is changed since that hazy, calm September dawn in 1943 when the new Hellcat fighters flew against Marcus Island from the new Essex-and Independence-class carriers in their first combat mission...
...divorce, explained that her husband refused to build a bathroom in their house because "sani tary facilities were something newfangled and wouldn't last." Literary Reflection. In New Westmin ster, B.C., a woman applied to the Director of Vital Statistics for permission to change her name from Dawn Anna Glow to Amber Glow...