Word: dawning
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...dawn last week cold enough to make a man's nostrils stick together, the Albanian coast appeared as a thin line over the sea in the east to a silent row of British battleships approaching Valona. Not far inland, the Greeks were slogging slowly ahead with their mountain warfare through deep snowdrifts. The sea was cold, grey and unusually calm for the Adriatic. Just before sunrise Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham ordered: "Open fire." The big ships belched thunderously and shook...
...true. Decorations for military prowess and valor go back to history's dawn...
...Reformation has Christian feeling in the Reich been more intense. This Christmastide will see millions of Germans quietly celebrating a Christian Christmas. Protestants and Catholics alike will sing that best-beloved of all carols, Silent Night, in the fervent hope that the silent night will be followed by the dawn...
...luxury. Many will die of influenza, pneumonia, tuberculosis, typhus or cholera. Of Europe's 525,000,000 people, some millions, probably never to be counted, will starve. In this second year of World War II Europe will live in the Dark Ages: in bleak despair from dawn to dusk, in blackness from dusk to dawn...
...Brest to slip across the Channel by night, hunting British sea traffic creeping along the island's south coast. R. N.'s 5th Destroyer Flotilla, commanded by King George's cousin, Captain The Lord Louis Mountbatten, in the brand-new Javelin, fell upon three raiders before dawn, drove them off with angry shellfire. As they lit out for Brest, the Germans loosed a flight of torpedoes, one of which caught the Javelin. She had to be nursed to port while R. A. F. fighters circled out from the headlands and shot down three Nazi bombers sent...