Word: dawns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Downpour. Sunday morning Copenhagen woke before dawn to the sound of firing from the port. Denmark's tiny Navy was committing suicide. Some were trying to escape to Sweden, some were scuttled by their crews where they lay. German planes caught and sank at least one that fled, but nine reached Sweden. There was a skirmish at the Royal Barracks. Danes and Germans fell in a clash at the Amalienborg, where some of the royal family watched and waited. The battle was heard in Sweden, 20 miles across the Ore Sund...
...Daily Bread. But even in the inebriation of success, Russia's little man could not forget the harshness of his daily life. When he thought of victory, he also thought of hlyeb-bread, sustenance. For in Russia today, the sharp pangs of hunger come as regularly as the dawn...
Portent. From Egypt last week came a hopeful ray for another dawn: Cairo turned on its lights, first of the war-benighted cities to do so. From Shepherds Hotel, caravansary for restless polyglots, lights blazed out again on the Mid-East mosaic: tanned cosmopolites sipping gin & limes on Shepheard's terrace; rattletrap taxis twisting up dust from the swarming streets; soft-voiced dragomans swishing at flies and barefooted fellahin ignoring them. Dawn's early ray found Cairo unchanged, unchallenging; but the city was free from fear...
While the Jap was looking the other way, an amphibious U.S. force steamed by moonlight around Jap-held Kolombangara, landed at dawn on Vella Lavella's south eastern shore. Captured were some 350 surprised Nips, an unheard-of number of prisoners in the South Pacific. Other Japs fled into the jungle...
...Another Dawn. At 7 o'clock in the morning two Italians came into our lines saying that the Germans had evacuated Troina. We wanted to believe them, but we did not let our hopes run away with us. Horner gave last-minute instructions to Lieut. Everett Booth, commander of Company I, who was to go out in full strength toward the city: "Never mind the banks or anything like that. Head straight for the mayor's office and set up the battalion command post there...