Word: daybreak
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...foxholes at dark, between 6:30 and 7 o'clock. They could not smoke, talk or leave their stations until daybreak. Anything that moved in the bivouac area after dark would be killed. As they dug in, rain fell-the heavy, soaking, almost unbelievable rain of Bougainville that swiftly rots clothes and bodies-and turned the foxholes into sticky beds...
...Chinese return Chennault's affection. Bandits once stole all the aviation gasoline at an air base; two Services of Supply men spent a month trying to recover the fuel. Finally a coolie was told that Chennault needed the gasoline. Before daybreak next day there was the clatter of drums of gas being rolled up the highway. By dawn all of the drums had been returned...
...mother that of the many he had seen die, he had not seen or heard of one who met death with terror. He knew that he would treat wounded Southern soldiers as gently. The faces of the dead were transfigured. He stepped out of his tent one grey, dim daybreak, and walked in the cool fresh air to the hospital tent, uncovering the features of three of the dead - an elderly man, gaunt and grim, a young boy, and a third -Young man 7 think I know you - 7 think this face is the face of the Christ himself, Dead...
...daybreak was near, the time short. Pontoons, captured from the Germans in earlier campaigns, were quickly launched. Guns, ammunition, supplies were hastily loaded aboard. Then, guided by guerrillas, the men cautiously crossed the river. By daybreak the entire mechanized unit had landed. Immediately trenches were dug, guns emplaced...
...witness was known as "Harry the Horse" Goldman. "It had just begun daybreak," he related, when he had found Hannah and Fight Manager Benny Woodall asleep together; so he just quietly "left out." Hannah's attorney burned him with a remark about narcotics. "I'm no neurotic," snapped Harry the Horse. "I never touch the stuff." Another witness told of the times he had seen Hannah and ex-Lightweight Champion Lew Jenkins together. Another reported on Dempsey's front-door entrances as Hannah's visitors left by the side door...