Word: daybreak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attack was scheduled for daybreak. In the close-packed boats moving toward the Continent, men loaded the magazines of their Bren guns and checked equipment. It was a hot, muggy night on a lifeless Channel...
...Daybreak was greeted by a ship's boy ("on the same principle as having family grace said by the youngest child") with the singing of a hymn. Further similar hymns were sung at almost every half hour of the day. But piety did not prevent the sailors from becoming terrified as the voyage went on, from plotting mutiny and the murder of Columbus. Only the landfall at San Salvador in the Bahamas prevented some kind of outbreak. Nor did piety stop the "white gods" from swindling, kidnapping, murdering and raping Indians before they had been a month...
...formed a 'suicide antisniper' unit with 84 volunteers to eliminate 300 enemy snipers who had infiltrated behind the American lines. . . . The unit cleaned up one sector of the sniper area every morning between daybreak and 8:30. They killed at least 250 and also wiped out a number of Japanese machine-gunners with hand grenades...
Church. In 1775 George Washington, before taking command of the nation's first army, prayed in his white pew in Christ Church, Alexandria, Va. Before his decision to take command of the Virginia forces, Robert E. Lee prayed there in 1861. In Alexandria, at daybreak Thursday, the balding, vigorous, 34-year-old rector, the Rev. Edward Randolph Welles, summoned eight young men of the parish, gave them a Secret-Service-combed list of 250 parishioners' names, admission cards...
...half-light of the equatorial daybreak, a U.S. cruiser sighted a vessel about eleven miles away. The cruiser signaled by searchlight. There was no answer-first suspicion...