Word: predawn
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...disarming G.I.s and cops would force Congress to kill the measure. That didn't happen, and the measure was passed during the gargantuan, all-night effort to avoid a government shutdown. Before the potential implications for the military had become clear, Lautenberg was pleased. He had taken a predawn catnap in the Senate cloakroom and awakened to a beefed-up bill. "A spouse is a spouse is a spouse," he says, "and we can't excuse that kind of behavior, even for a soldier...
...began in the predawn darkness of Sept. 5, 1972, when eight members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September scaled the wire fence surrounding the Olympic Village and burst into the apartments housing the Israeli contingent--fatally shooting two athletes before taking hostage nine more. Much of the excruciating and often surreal 20-hour stalemate that followed was played out live on television, an eerie prelude to last week's onscreen horror...
...sniper hiding in the woods opened fire on 1,300 Army paratroopers at Fort Bragg as they were about to set out on a predawn exercise run. One soldier was killed, and about 20 were wounded. Other soldiers seized and subdued the suspect, Sergeant William Kreutzer, a comrade at the North Carolina Army base. He was being questioned by Army officials...
After witnessing the successful test of the first atomic bomb--a primordial burst of energy on the predawn New Mexico desert, a man-made fire bright enough to flicker in reflection off the moon--Brigadier General Thomas F. Farrell sought out his immediate superior, Major General Leslie R. Groves. Groves was commander of the top-secret Manhattan Project, which had been commissioned and funded--with $2 billion--to try to build such a bomb. "When Farrell came up to me," Groves remembered, "his first words were, 'The war is over.' My reply was, 'Yes, after we drop two bombs...
...authorities was too slow because of its bureaucracy. They are deserved. But this earthquake was much more destructive than the government ever imagined. It is easy to criticize, but everyone has to learn from this horrendous experience. Yoshiko Kawada Hachioji, Japan It happened all of a sudden in predawn darkness. My house was almost destroyed. It was a nightmare. Like a thunderbolt, violent movement ran through our street. After this tragic moment, deep silence came back in the darkness, and then I heard a voice crying for help. It was a horrible dream. After dawn, people in the street composed...