Word: dawns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They had tumbled out in the dawn at a cry from the ship's rail: "There's the Old Lady, fellas. There's the Old Lady. . . ." As the Statue of Liberty took shape through the mist, they yelled and banged fists on other men's shoulders. But they were quiet as the ship docked. On the pier they reached out like children to touch the Gray Ladies who served them food-American women...
...dawn, she sighted a ship that looked, in the dim distance, like an armed raider. The stranger was twice challenged, and twice she ignored the "Daisy Mae." Then Lieut. Commander (now Commander) G. H. Stephen ordered his signalman: "Tell them we're going to open up if they don't answer.'' Back came the reply: "Carry on, Canada, with your gallant little ship...
Friday's dawn on the rolling plain of south Poland was like many of the month before-a grey blending of snowy night with snowy day. On their side of the line west of the Vistula, the Germans huddled in their trenches and guessed that this Friday would be just another day of wary waiting. No planes would fly. The earth was still soft and sticky...
...this purpose, the spry little 142-pound admiral had hundreds of aircraft flying from the big, fait carriers of Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet. He peered through red-rimmed eyes as the air groups were flown off and formed up at dawn, hundreds of miles east of their targets. His chief of staff, Rear Admiral Wilder Du Puy Baker, is a grandfather, but McCain addressed him as "Son." He addressed everybody on the flag bridge as "Son." One of them was Commander John S. ("Jimmy") Thach, inventor of the Navy fighter plane technique for Jap-killing, known...
...Artists) is a straightforward screen version of last year's straightforward stage melodrama (TIME, April 26, 1943) about the little boy from Hitler's Germany who brings his Nazi-conditioned reflexes into a liberal-minded American household and practically destroys it before he begins to see the dawn's early light...