Word: dawned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHERRY ORCHARD. Uta Hagen leads the APA in a gentle and balanced production of Chekhov's commentary on the sad absurdity of human beings who, unable to adapt themselves to the changes of history, grope about in a half-light that may be twilight and may be dawn. Pantagleize, The Show Off and Exit the King round out the repertory...
...first light of dawn, troop-car rying Israeli helicopters lifted off their pads near Jericho and Sodom and raced eastward deep into neighboring Jordan. As soon as they had landed their in fantrymen in blocking positions, the main Israeli invasion force began to roll. North of the Dead Sea, Centurion tanks laden with helmeted paratroopers and halftrack personnel carriers trun dling infantrymen rumbled across the Allenby and Damiya bridges onto Jordan's East Bank. A second task force punched across the border south of the Dead Sea. Israeli artillery laid down a barrage that walked just ahead...
...help, and in return must accept some of the measures of discipline that Europe demands, unpalatable though that idea may seem. As an alternative, the U.S. could at worst retreat into economic isolationism and perhaps maintain a reasonable living standard. At best, the gold crisis could bring the dawn of a new era of international economic partnership...
...them into magic. Rather, it is bringing words back to their original source. . . . Words began, in a sense, as magic" (at a time when "light" actually flashed, and "night" was darker than now), and later assumed abstract meanings: "Language did not come from libraries," but from fishermen, fields and dawn. "We know men sang before they talked. . . . We feel the last line of the first chapter of Finnegan's Wake could only have been written after centuries of literature. But there was a time when words meant something as beautiful...
McCarthy's cause was boosted a bit in Minnesota and California as well. In his home state, McCarthy surprisingly was assured of 16 of Minnesota's 62 Democratic delegates during party precinct caucuses. In California, McCarthy partisans held midnight-to-dawn petition parties to sign on voters to validate his position on the state's June 4 primary ballot. Working all night, his supporters collected more than 28,000 signatures. Being first in with their petitions, they gained the top spot on the ballot for McCarthy-a considerable psychological advantage, since Johnson will be represented in California...