Word: dawned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small hours before dawn, 5,000 students gathered for a political parade through Chungking. They were dressed in the motley of China's youth-family hand-me-downs, G.I. castoffs, ragged patches. Many had walked as much as 20 miles to the city. A university dean accompanied them-in a ricksha supplied with sandwiches and oranges for wilted marchers...
...Russian military tribunal sentenced wrong-switch Walther to be shot at dawn...
...Bryant Conant, that in August most clearly denned the swing back-to required courses, a "core curriculum." Colgate was already at it when Harvard's famed report on General Education in a Free Society appeared. Princeton, Yale and a score of other colleges have likewise heralded a new dawn of coherence...
...blackness before dawn, the Silver Meteor streaked through the South Carolina pine barren. In its Pullmans and dim-lit coaches, most of its capacity load of passengers were asleep. The three Diesel-powered locomotives which make it the fastest of the Seaboard Air Line's New York-Miami trains had a clear stretch of track toward that day's sunny warmth in Florida...
...would be a great night for the spilled highball, the cigaret burn, and the lamentations of teetering women who had just lost a high heel from one slipper. Shrill words would be spoken before dawn. At least one famous actor, writer or politician would get punched in the nose, and automobiles would collide with an abandon almost forgotten during the stodgy years of gas rationing. The morning-after consumption of aspirin, raw egg and Worcestershire sauce would rise again in proof of man's infinite capacity for hope...