Word: dawned
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Outside Cape Town, where a cordon of helmeted soldiers and sailors surrounded 100,000 beleaguered Africans in Nyanga and Langa townships, police launched lightning raids from dawn to dusk. The cops broke into the squalid homes at random, flailing the hapless inhabitants with whips and shouting "Go to work." In one foray, more than 1,500 were herded away to police stations for questioning...
...situation is completely under control," said Verwoerd soothingly, but he acted like a man who feared imminent revolution on a national scale. Before dawn on Wednesday, even before the emergency declaration was fully in effect, his detectives fanned out in simultaneous raids throughout the nation to arrest scores of native leaders and suspected troublemakers. Chief Albert Luthuli, president of the African National Congress and a moderate who had now joined the radicals in advocating pass-burning, was awakened and hauled away at 2 a.m.; soon the police were picking up "dangerous" whites as well, including all the top leaders...
This notion is beginning to dawn even on hardheaded Broadway professionals as they seek to explain the facts: of 45 productions that have opened on Broadway since last autumn, 30 have already closed, half of them after scarcely a week. It is the most disastrous season within memory, not only financially but artistically, and few deny that the American theater suffers from a sickness of the soul...
Just as first dawn lighted Cuba's northern coastline one morning last week, a Piper Comanche droned in at 200 ft. over the coastal highway 70 miles east of Havana. One of Fidel Castro's army patrols, carrying a .50-cal. machine gun, opened fire, riddling the plane with bullets. The plane landed hastily just off the road, and out stepped two Florida pilot-adventurers: William Shergales, 34, and Howard Lewis ("Swede") Rundquist, 33, whose foot was gushing blood. Demanded Shergales: "Take me to Fidel Castro...
Gymnastics at Dawn. Along with Bishop Walsh, 13 Chinese priests were sentenced in Shanghai to terms from five to 25 years. And there was one life sentence-for Bishop Ignatius Kung Ping-mei of Soochow. Slender, smiling Kung Ping-mei, 59, has all the qualifications to make himself hated by the Reds. Born to a wealthy Roman Catholic family in a small town near Shanghai, he studied for the priesthood in Shanghai's French Jesuit College at Zikawei, where he learned to speak perfect French and imperfect English and to understand Westerners. Father Kung specialized in education, showed notable...