Word: dawned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...momentum in the seesaw war has increasingly swung in Iran's favor. In February, Tehran staged its most sophisticated assault of the long and bloody conflict. Named Val Fajr (I Swear by the Dawn), the attack seized the Iraqi oil port of Fao. Iraq recovered briefly by capturing the Iranian border town of Mehran in May, only to lose it again in June. Though it enjoys an enormous advantage in equipment, its reliance on rigid defensive tactics makes its soldiers vulnerable to the night attacks and lightning raids of its enemy. "Remember," says a senior U.S. official, "the Iranians...
Abraham Lincoln sneaked into the Willard one dawn just a year later, his bodyguards having cloaked his movements from Illinois because of rumors of assassination. When the President-elect took his boots off in his second-story suite, he found he had forgotten his slippers. Henry Willard had some, but they were not big enough for Abe. Willard's grandfather, William Bradley, just then visiting, had huge feet and slippers to fit. He sent them over to Lincoln's rooms...
...right? Wrong. Just the darkness before the dawn of an astonishing...
Final preparations for the sovereign display began before dawn, as crack marksmen took up their positions on the rooftops and security men disguised themselves as bewigged footmen. By 10 a.m. the first of the 1,800 guests began taking their seats in the abbey. First Lady Nancy Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher were in attendance, along with Opposition Leaders Neil Kinnock, David Owen and David Steel. So too were Actor Michael Caine, TV Host David Frost and Singer Elton John, sporting purple glasses and a ponytail...
...giant, who was on the shore of the sea, quite naked, and was dancing and leaping, and singing, and whilst singing he put the sand and dust on his head . . . He was so tall that the tallest of us only came up to his waist." After the dawn of the Enlightenment and the scientific method, eyewitness accounts of oddities arrived buttressed by facts. In Africa, a 19th century, English explorer met the sister-in-law of a local chief and noted, "She was another of those wonders of obesity, unable to stand excepting on all fours." He then cajoled...