Word: dawned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said. To ensure that nobody missed the point, he used the "new day" phrase half a dozen more times, and it would be no surprise if that became the slogan of his campaign. In a Humphrey Administration?if there is one?he told reporters, "I may turn to 'new dawn.' The dawn comes slowly, but it illuminates...
...will to be free. The circumstances of his arrival last week in Prague, after three days of negotiations in Moscow, illustrated the unyielding grip in which the Soviets and their hard-lining East Bloc allies now hold his land. Dubček's plane landed in secret at dawn. Bulgarian troops and tanks guarded the field, and Soviet secret police whisked him and his fellow reformist leaders in official Soviet autos to a temporary government headquarters in Hradčany Castle. Dubček's forehead was marked by a deep cut. His face was haggard with fatigue...
Beehive Rounds. After that, it was simply a question of waiting. An ambush patrol from the U.S. 25th Infantry Division was the first to make contact. Before dawn one morning, it suddenly found itself looking at a well-ordered, 500-man column coolly marching down Route 13 northeast of Tay Ninh. The ambushers let most of the Communist troops pass by, then called in artillery to blast them...
Wartime Democracy. His dedication to Ibo nationhood dates from the same day as his now luxuriant beard, which he let grow during the 1966 fall massacres "as a sign of mourning." He sleeps from dawn to midmorning, lives and works in his tightly guarded Umuahia villa. He evacuated his wife Njide-ka and two small children after a bomb was dropped near his home. Slouched at his desk, pacing the grounds impatiently in darkness, chain-smoking State Express filter cigarettes, he is a lonely figure in his besieged land. Ojukwu often is pictured in Nigerian propaganda as a power...
Shortly before dawn one Sunday this month, 214 left-wing Roman Catholics - including six priests and two nuns - "captured" the cathedral in Santiago, Chile. Barricading the doors against all outsiders for 15 hours, they celebrated an informal liturgy, then issued a manifesto denouncing Pope Paul's scheduled visit this week to the 39th International Eucharistic Congress in Bogota, Colombia. "Christ does not need masses of people singing in the streets, or acclaiming his vicarage, or thousands of wax candles," said the declaration. "The Christ of the poor needs courageous action aimed at changing the conditions of the Latin American...