Word: dawns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...number of fighters. The Luftwaffe, once able to bomb Russia's remote bases, industrial centers, airfields at will, now has difficulty protecting its hard-pressed armies. In the path of the Wehrmacht's retreat across the Ukraine, Moscow said last week, Red aircraft "darken the skies from dawn to dusk, discharging thousands of tons of explosives which pulverize everything beneath them...
...murky dawn hour when Kiev fell, the battle for the Dnieper had virtually ended, the battle for western Russia had begun...
...beggary. Between Alaric and Hitler, none of the many sackings of Rome surpassed in wanton ferocity that of the German and Spanish mercenaries of Emperor Charles V in 1527. They came down from Lombardy, where they had mutinied for 150,000 ducats in back pay. In a misty May dawn, the Germans and Spaniards breached Rome's walls, ran amuck. They ransacked, burned, profaned, tortured, raped, murdered. The Pope became the Emperor's captive.* Wrote Eyewitness Cardinal Salviati: "Every possible infamy was committed. . . . They were Christians, yet they did that which I never heard of being done...
Delude us-dawn is very...
Rain and darkness made an ideal cloak. In the hour before dawn the little vessel from Italy ran in close to the rocky Dalmatian coast and dropped its solitary passenger. Daniel De Luce, Associated Press correspondent, climbed into the wet woods without a sound, felt his way to the appointed rendezvous...