Word: dawned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...primarily fasting from dawn to sunset. No food, no drink, no intercourse. Refrain from lying and fighting. It's a time to work on spiritual development," Syed said...
...Iraqis go about their business of struggling to survive. The cityscape looks the same, shabby but nothing worse. People talk about how little they slept, but they show no other outward signs of stress. This is a curiously surreal war that starts on schedule after dark and stops before dawn, its most intense drama and damage so far taking place mostly out of sight...
...officers grilled Ahmed for days but finally concluded he was making up the tale. If an informant is credible, the agency often dispatches a special countersurveillance unit, nicknamed the snapshot team, which will sit in the embassy, wearing night-vision goggles from dusk to dawn, and peer out windows to spot terrorists casing the building. No snapshot team was dispatched to Nairobi. Instead, the station sent out another warning report: Ahmed is probably fabricating the story, but he could be telling the truth, or he could be approaching the embassy to check its security...
BAGHDAD: The Islamic holy month of Ramadan began at dawn Saturday in Iraq, but that doesn't make a bit of difference to the Pentagon. "Bill Cohen's word all along has been that the U.S. wouldn't 'initiate' an attack during Ramadan," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "But they won't stop now before they're finished." That meant a fourth round of air strikes in Baghdad Saturday...
...during his 10 years at Disney was involved with the making of cartoon hits from The Little Mermaid through The Lion King, believes he has everything to prove. For years, he was known as "the golden retriever"--the superefficient executive who, revved up on diet soda, worked from dawn to dinner. But the nickname contained an implicit insult: Can a dog--even a clever dog--be creative...