Word: daybreak
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...dumps arms into the stormy ocean. Enter handsome Tim O'Leary, the Commandant, with nine fine young men in oilslieks. O'Leary goes straight to the pub of Mr. Ryan, a trusted revolutionary, to ask for a dozen men to help collect cast-up munitions from the beach at daybreak. Trouble is, Mr. Ryan is an informer on the payroll of the aristocratic British major who is fucking around with Ryan's daughter...
...exhibit's first few glass display cases (handsomely arranged) are indigo scrolls in gold and silver ink illustrating episodes of the sutras. One can't escape the richness of their age since they are placed next to eroding bronze containers dating from 1090. And in Lake and Mountains at Daybreak, Summer, an early 19th century painting of the literary style, one can see how Van Gogh borrowed from the Japanese method of using rows of short vertical lines to illustrate grass or fields...
...closed to the press) with the prisoners now known as the "L. A. 18." charged with conspiracy to murder and various other felonies. The police department's initial lie as to when the raid took place (they pushed the time up to 5:30 a. m., which is after daybreak) and their reported six-week preparation for the "search" make even the details of the raid conform to the connotations of fascism...
...chum, Rene Corda, 26, were far from sated. They persuaded the tall brunette barmaid, Marie-Madeleine Irbah, 25, to join them for another drink. An hour later Marie-Madeleine found herself facing a pistol in a Citroen with reclining seats, parked in a lonely forest. At daybreak, she went to the police and reported that she had been raped repeatedly. The two men were convicted, fined $1,000 in damages, and sentenced to three years in prison...
...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...