Word: daybreaks
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...helmeted police officers, seemingly emulating their Chicago prototypes, beat screaming students with their billy clubs repeatedly just for the pleasure of it in the flat silver light of daybreak, an illusion was smashed. Harvard would no longer be an ivy-covered sanctuary in an America that was coming apart...
...undergraduate days, the Hallicrafters brought news of the decay of the French West African Empire, the enduring South American boundary disputes, and above all, the deepening provincialism of a United States at war in a former French colony it considered wholly Asian. Accidental daybreak listening lured me into programming directed at non-American listeners deeply intrigued by all things American, including the vagaries of American English. For 35 years I listened, lately with a magnificent solid-state receiver I rescued one graduation day from a curbside trash barrel and refitted with a long copper antenna, realizing that my hour...
...JUAN, Puerto Rico--Sabotage felled power pylons and feeder lines and blacked out much of Puerto Rico beginning at daybreak yesterday, utility officials said. They said power outages would likely continue until today...
...installed in every home. The display case in a hotel bookstore features 114 different works, all by Kim Il Sung or his son and heir apparent, Kim Jong Il. Martial music is piped in throughout the country, even in the bus taking passengers from airplane to terminal; by daybreak, when workers march to their jobs, a fast, furious female voice is already shouting exhortations from a hidden amplifier in the street...
Sisulu, 77, arrived under police escort at daybreak at his home in Soweto. Youths who had been waiting at the house lifted them atop their shoulders before he went inside. He made no statement...