Word: dawned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Georges Rapin was that from childhood he could do no wrong, and knew it. His father was a wealthy Paris engineer who occasionally chided him for flunking courses, but at 13 Georges gave up on school entirely. At 18, he had his own convertible and stayed out until nearly dawn every morning...
...lion duly eviscerates the tribesman, but just as he is about to dispatch him, up runs the warden. Which to shoot? He hesitates for several paragraphs between his pledge to protect all animals and "an instinctive feeling of solidarity with [the man] rooted in the first dawn of human awareness...
...first page of this massive Civil War novel, Hero John Bottomley is up before dawn to fight a duel with villainous Ules Monckton. But he does not reach the dueling ground until page 143. having lost his way in a maze of flashbacks intended to introduce the reader to the large, and largely predictable, cast. There is the weak younger brother who breaks his stern daddy's heart; the high-strung mother who fears a slave insurrection; the "giddy, harum-scarum" little sister; the coldly beautiful woman who spurns the hero and marries money; and inevitably, a willful, head...
...North Viet Nam border, where Communist Ho Chi Minh was eager to welcome his fleeing comrades from Laos. The stumbling flight of the Reds was halted by armed peasants loyal to the government, who fired on them. The pursuing royal troops closed in, and General Ouane demanded surrender by dawn...
Over Chicago a bright blue light hangs in the sky, visible 400 miles away. When dawn comes the light jades out in the sunshine, and the sky station stands revealed. It is a great, saucerlike disk supported in the high, thin air by whirling helicopter blades. On its deck perch radar antennas, turning ceaselessly. It stays up month after month. It has no fuel to be exhausted; its power is beamed to it from the ground...