Word: daybreaks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Before daybreak one morning last week, U.N. troops began a "limited" attack northward toward the rail, road and supply center of Kumsong, 30 miles above the parallel. First the Reds fell back under U.N. napalm and artillery, then they turned, loosed a fierce artillery barrage, the heaviest since April. Some 500 shells dropped on U.N. positions at the rate of two a minute. But the U.N. troops held. Next night there was artillery again and 200 rounds of heavy mortar fire. Under cover of the artillery, the Reds sent small infantry forces forward. It looked as if the Reds were...
...overboard, and the eek-it's-a-man-eating-shark, episodes that seem presaged by the opening. It becomes the tale, always unusual and often rather scientific, of life in a strange new world, where parrots bite radio aerials and a waiting breakfast is picked off the decks at daybreak. Unless you are the squeamish type who shrieks at the sight of a whale, you will enjoy "Kon-Tiki" well abaft of the edge of your chair...
...daybreak of the final day, the field was lined up for the final cast. Some of the entries were in sorry shape, suffering from cut paws, deep brier gashes along their smooth coats, and general hang-tongue weariness. In the five hours they worked, the hounds flushed, chased and gave tongue after seven red foxes, with the 14 judges galloping hell-for-leather after them. After eight hours of deliberation, consultation and comparing of notes, the judges awarded both top contenders 200 points-then for superior hunting ability they gave the championship nod to tail-wagging, tongue-lolling Meggs White...
...daybreak serenade, which Ithaca students have been keeping under their dinks for the past week, is the Big Red's retaliation for a similar stunt that the Harvard Band pulled two years...
...ranking U.S. military commander last week: "Everybody tends to overestimate an enemy who puts up a fight, but make no mistake about it-these guys are tough; they are just as tough as the Japanese." The officer supplied some specifics. "The Korean Communists," he said, "can start marching at daybreak, march all day and all night, and then attack in the morning. We've seen them run-not dogtrot, but run-up a 1,500-foot hill. Our men just can't do tricks like that...