Word: daybreak
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...days, guided by Indians, they pushed into the jungle. In some places the growth was so thick "that without a watch you would mistake midday for daybreak or sunset." Some days, cutting a trail with machetes, the party progressed as little as two miles. Boggy ground made walking hazardous. Food grew scarce, and dysentery developed. Once a 20-foot python knocked down a soldier. Men who fell ill returned to Moyobamba...
...next three weeks Low was up at daybreak, banging away at the Premier - always with the same result. Groza, a wilful old man who had to win, brought his own umpire, a burly sergeant of the security police with an outsize Luger on his hip. If Low aced the Premier, he was "Not ready. Serve again." If Groza's return hit three feet outside the baseline, the sergeant would give Low a stern look, toggle his holster and grunt: "Goot!" And no matter where Low's ball hit, if the Premier couldn...
Late that night, a deafening roar awakened the village. All knew it was an ayapana (avalanche), which to the Indians meant "an earthquake from above." Tons of mountain mud, loosed by the rain, poured over Sondondo. At daybreak, survivors saw only rock-studded earth where once 30 trim houses had stood. At least 70 people were missing...
...Moorish city of Granada and carried off the poet Lorca. What happened thereafter is still a matter of conjecture. He was never seen again. By some accounts the fascists took him to the village of Fuente-vaqueros, where he had been born 37 years before, and there at daybreak, when the first light was glittering on the tiles and window panes of Andalusia, shot him. He had written about this hour in his country...
...retrospect I see again my Superior calling me and saying: "Go with the mule cart to the village of X, where the missionary is ill." Before daybreak we start, a Chinese priest and a sick pupil from the school of the sisters...