Word: dawned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vulgarity, innuendo, bad language, bad manners and filth are what is necessary to be a success in these United States, then we are certainly headed for either total depravity or a sharp reaction with a dictatorship. At the end of the last century, the U.S. was at the dawn of a golden age in literature and culture. We had Longfellow, Whittier, Emerson, Bryant and Whitman. Our former greatness now turns around a burlesque show with striptease trimmings...
...summer dawn...
Seven British soldiers in postwar occupied Germany are assigned to guard the obsolete, World War II Bofors antiaircraft cannon. Their mission is obviously a useless exercise but the soldiers nonetheless mount their guard in a battered barracks, awaiting the dawn. Thus unwinds a tightly spun military yarn that has a touch of allegory. Shrouded in canvas, the Bofors gun is never seen in its entirety; though it orders their lives, it remains irrelevant to the soldiers, who blandly carry on their battle with boredom. So painstakingly does The Bofors Gun record the brutalizing effects of military routine that...
Unfortunately. UConn plays Saturday games at 10:30 a.m., so the Harvard squad will leave Cambridge at dawn for the two hour trip to the Storrs campus. Unless the defense holds solid, it might be a long ride back...
...streets of their provincial capital, 55 miles northwest of Saigon. Three regiments of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops had maneuvered around Tay Ninh in the shad ow of Nui Ba Den, the Black Virgin mountain. Some Communist units hit outlying defense posts. Others slipped into the city before dawn under cover of a rocket and mortar barrage and dug into foxholes...