Word: dawning
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Then the cock crowed. CNN - relayed on TV powered by erratic generators - started sounding excited, and then dawn began to break, a ludicrously beautiful African dawn of pink flowers and big wide trees. And then the women came wailing and singing, the dancing started and the drinking began...
...minimize your suffering, arrive between 10 a.m. and noon or between 2 and 4 p.m. And be nice to the person who gives you an "I Voted" sticker. That person has been up since dawn defending your democracy against the forces of chaos...
...Arrive before dawn (in Virginia...
Peter Atkins is weary and a little miffed. As usual, he's been up since dawn, fishing for a living off the coast of Kaikoura, a town in the north-east corner of the South Island. Blast, it shouldn't be this cold in October. And seagulls keep pecking at the crate-loads of hoki stacked on the deck of his boat. He's also been let down by a helper who's scampered before the day's work is done. Which gets him started on how, as he sees it, the government favors certain types of people. "Basically, people...
Across the country, buyers are finding the current "buyer's market" increasingly frustrating. Realtors say wait times for deals to close have gone up, and more and more buyers are walking away, even when they find prices attractive. "Banks are a mess," says Dawn Connelly, a real estate investor in Palm City, Fla., who, despite dozens of offers, has bought only six houses in the past year. "They take months and months to accept an offer and aren't typically willing to make deals...