Word: daybreak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baez, Farina's sister-in-law, write a brief portrait of him entitled "Child of Darkness," which, to Joanic's credit, is genuinely touching. It is reprinted as an introduction to Long Time Coming and may also be found in the middle of Miss Baez's phenomenally saccharine autobiography, Daybreak. The title of the article is a reference to "Children of Darkness," one of Farina's last and most world-weary songs...
...veins of the Consolidation Coal Co.'s No. 9 mine in northern West Virginia. Suddenly, deep in the earth, an explosion thundered through the eight-mile-long labyrinth of shafts and tunnels. Shock waves rippled outward for miles, jolting the Marion County mining community into frightened wakefulness. At daybreak, thick clouds of greasy black smoke billowed 150 ft. into the grey morning...
...world will have to discover a way to live together in peace and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant...
...daybreak, controlled calm had given way to a growing sense of consternation. Here were 83 Americans and a ship crammed to the gunwales with electronic hardware, hostages to one of the Communist world's most belligerent and intransigent regimes (see THE WORLD). Though the Navy bravely tried to make light of the loss of the equipment aboard Pueblo, arguing that the Russians have comparable gear, few electronics experts were so blase. "This equipment is so esoteric that it verges on the unattainable," said one U.S. authority, who considers Pueblo's capture "a really major catastrophe." In purely political...
...strikes that rained steel and napalm on the hill. When grenade fragments paralyzed both legs, Howard organized a tight defense and handed his ammunition to Marines still able to fight, before taking charge of the platoon's radio. When reinforcements tried to land by helicopter at daybreak, Howard waved them out of danger until he was satisfied that further bombing had knocked the fight out of the North Vietnamese who had outnumbered his men by 20 to one. Four of Howard's scouts won the Navy Cross, the second highest award, and 13 the Silver Star. Six other...