Word: dawns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Night Shift. In Santa Monica, Calif., police charged that Edwin Kiedrowski, having noticed where a large bus was always parked for the night, had made off with it four times, operated a midnight-to-dawn service to Port Hueneme, 60 miles away, done a brisk business at 50? a passenger...
...dawn of the counterinvasion's third day the Germans crept into Alinda Bay. With the aid of paratroopers they occupied the narrow neck of land where the sea almost cuts the island in two. The British counterattacked. For a while they seemed to be gaining. So, at 4 p.m. of the fifth day, said the Leros radio, with a British upper lip. At 5 p.m. it went off the air. Leros had fallen. The defenders were captured or escaped to Samos, where the Germans shortly announced fresh attacks to root out the last British force in the Aegean. This...
...walls buckled in, carrying firemen on extension ladders down with them. The night air stank with acrid smells of cordite, burnt flesh, sweat. Cries of the burned, hoarse shouted commands of the firemen, and thunderous oaths kaleidoscoped into a rumble of sound. The city seemed engulfed in flame. At dawn the rosy glow of the fires gave way grudgingly to a coppery sun, picking its way through billows of heavy black smoke...
...chill hours before dawn, hundreds of steam and motor boats crept out over the star-sprinkled swells of the upper Great Lakes. They chugged past dim, pine-spiked shores until the sky greyed into day and the wheelmen could pick out the flag-topped buoys that marked their submerged nets. The craft drifted silently to a stop in the icy, crystal water...
There's an end to the night at the break of the dawn...