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Word: daybreak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down his cheeks and down onto his black pinstripe suit--the law professor, I think, the other Ginsburg--or is it Ginsberg?--Ginsbirg?--homonymous, at any rate, and a poet, the queer, the bundle of tie-died rags crumpled still sleeping at his brother's feet, sleeping off the daybreak or maybe paralyzed from the South African toadskin the freaked-out hitchhiker passed off as Nirvana several thousand moments ago in California, back there in a distant space before the angry pumped up reds-speed-and-Jack-Daniels buzz twisted, writhed and plummeted into the mellow blue-black of sweet...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: On the Road | 11/10/1987 | See Source »

...daybreak, the remaining three were approached by a Harvard police officer who "wanted to see if we were from Harvard," Grossman said. "He said we could stay until...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Frosh Spend Night in Yard | 4/14/1987 | See Source »

...vague: check out a mansion 20 miles outside Medellin, the hub of the country's cocaine industry. At daybreak a 20-man elite police unit moved in. When the gunfight ended almost half an hour later, all 15 people inside the house were under arrest. But it was only when police demanded the papers of the captives that they realized they had cornered one of Colombia's most powerful and dangerous cocaine drug lords. Exclaimed Police Major William Lesmes: "We've caught him! This is Carlos Lehder Rivas." Dressed in a T shirt and blue jeans, Lehder muttered, "This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia: The Fall of a Cocaine Kingpin | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

...honor of downing the last few drops. It was an offer to share extended by those with nothing, and there was no time to think about the sores on the lips of the previous drinkers or the strange things floating in the bottle or the fact that it was daybreak and time for breakfast. It was better to drink and stay warm and forget about everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slow Descent into Hell | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

...hours, Copito de Nieve never abandons the tire...From it he can have a glimpse of what for man is the search for an escape from the dismay of living--investing oneself in things, recognizing oneself in signs, transforming the world into a collection of symbols--a first daybreak of culture in the long biological night...

Author: By J. ANDREW Mendelsohn, | Title: Looking for Mr. Palomar | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

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