Word: dawns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...towns for 50 miles around, saw the glare in the sky and, seconds later, felt a rumbling earth shock. Windows broke in houses 20 miles away. Telephone lines were down; many a doctor and nurse blundered for hours before they found the scene of the disaster. It was dawn before Port Chicago could see what had happened...
...dawn when Barrow and I joined the troop movement; the cruelty of the heat and cloudless skies was already unbear able. The whole Sixty-Second Army was on foot. As far as you could see, strung over the horizon through rice paddies, in single file along the ruined rail bed, crawling through ditches on the devastated highway, were single files of Chinese troops...
Hope in the Morning. The division had struck at 3:30 that-morning, creeping up the hills in the dawn. By midmorning it had taken seven of the ten hills that guarded the town. Divisional headquarters was certain that by next day the division would break through the Japs and the road to relieve Hengyang would be open. We set out for the front to see the fighting...
...frost woke me and my two Partisan guards at dawn on May 26 in the primeval forest of the Yavorusha Mountain. We climbed the ankle-deep carpet of dry leaves up to the top, and all around us the thick highland woods teemed with refugees and lowing cattle...
...Before dawn my guards announced: "The route is clear, but perhaps not for long." As we were about to start, the peasant's wife, in shabby garments and with a strangely radiating face, appeared from nowhere and spoke to me with downcast eyes, "I have only one son left. If he stays here, the Germans will sooner or later catch him and kill him. Please take him with you and ask Tito to accept him as a soldier." I looked at the handsome 16-year-old boy behind her. "Are you ready to fight under Tito?" "Yes," he said...