Word: daybreak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building, construction of primitive factories, or industrial labor. All members of the commune get regular military training, and even when not on duty they must move by the numbers. At Chao Ying commune in Honan, according to an enthusiastic Red newsman, "assembly bells ring and whistles blow at daybreak. In about a quarter of an hour the peasants line up. At the command of company and squad leaders, the teams march to the fields, holding flags. One no longer sees peasants in groups of two or three smoking and going slowly and leisurely to the fields. The desultory living habits...
...daybreak Bugas stopped bargaining to see the Ford board again, came back with more contract "refinements." At 10 a.m. the strike deadline passed, and 98,000 Ford workers went out while the U.A.W. hastily readied telegrams urging them to please go back to work. A few hours later Fordman John Bugas, happy that he had bagged the management's best contract since World War II, stretched out his hand to Reuther. "Walter," he beamed, "you've got yourself a deal...
Reveille is sounded before daybreak by transistor radios blasting out the morning news. At their irregular meals, the men eat rice or boiled starchy roots, dried codfish or bananas, sometimes boa constrictor or raccoon. They march, often dry and thirsty, through the hot midday. Castro moves along with them, joshing his men, examining their weapons, dressing-down laggards...
...daybreak, Thursday, August 27, 1908, on the Sam Johnson farm on the Pedernales River near Stonewall, Gillespie County. In the rambling old farmhouse of the young Sam Johnsons, lamps had burned all night. Now the light came in from the east, bringing a deep stillness, a stillness so profound and so pervasive that it seemed as if the earth itself were listening. And then there came a sharp, compelling cry-the most awesome, happiest sound known to human ears-the cry of a newborn baby. The first child...
...night long the city held its breath, while a few bursts of firing and the rumble of armor were heard. At daybreak a Hungarian sighed with relief: 'They did not shoot up the town again...