Word: dawns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Before dawn two truckloads of officers took over the Foreign Ministry, told Foreign Minister Alberto Gilbert over the telephone that his resignation had been "accepted." Others went to the Casa Rosada, and informed the Secretary of the Presidency, Enrique Gonzalez, that he also had "resigned...
...liberty nights the steadily decreasing number of arrests still runs over 400 and the S.P. pie-wagons keep shuttling until long after dawn. They have handled all kinds of violence, including murder...
When the Fitzgeralds move in, their dog trembles, howls and "deserts them. Their cat claws the air and rips out a wailing snarl at nothing. Just before dawn they are awakened by the heartbroken sobbing of a woman, whom they cannot locate. And when they make friends with Stella (pretty newcomer Gail Russell), granddaughter of the man they bought the house from, candleflames wither, an odor of mimosa pervades the room, the young girl rushes out and is barely prevented from diving off a cliff. She cannot explain why. The answer, as Stella and the Fitzgeralds discover when they stage...
Shells from the Hills. With dawn, the enemy found his eyes and his shells rocketed down from the hills beyond Cisterna. Enlisted men in the Command Post picked up trench shovels and bit deeper into their foxholes. Ahead we heard the screaming of the Nebelwerfer, followed by a rapid series of crunchings as shells landed close together...
Washrooms are full of fuss and flutter, and the babbling confusion of Marines in undress waiting to take showers, crowding around mirrors to put their hair in curlers and massaging their faces with creams. In the grey dawn they comb out the pin curls, feverishly powder noses, paint on lipstick (which matches the Marine red hat-cord) and dash off to breakfast and their duties...