Word: predawn
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...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 themselves and began to rescue those trapped under the crushed houses without considering their own lost property. My son started digging through the rubble with bare hands to help rescue a friend under a crushed apartment building. We accepted the reality...
...even the most brazen strategists can sometimes trump themselves. And the Serbs did so last week by launching a raid on a United Nations weapons center in an abandoned factory just west of Sarajevo. The Ukrainian peacekeepers guarding the depot were taken completely by surprise, not realizing the predawn smash-and-grab had taken place until they spotted the Serbs rolling a T-55 tank, two armored personnel carriers and an anti-aircraft gun out the main gate...
...Tuesday night while a panel of historians, retired generals and combat veterans discussed the Normandy invasion. When the talk turned to Omaha Beach, the costliest battle on D-day, 1944, Clinton listened intently as his guests explained that the deadly Omaha landings had not gone according to plan. The predawn bombing raids had missed their targets; the undertow was so strong that many G.I.s lost or abandoned their weapons before reaching land; instead of one German battalion guarding the shore, the Americans arrived to find three, which immediately pinned down the invaders under murderous fire. Several participants reported later that...
Horrific as the pictures are, observers for the U.N. and the Organization of American States returned from Gonaives last week with even grimmer detail. In the predawn hours of April 22, they reported, soldiers and paramilitary gunmen surrounded Raboteau, a slum where Aristide support runs strong, and shot down men, women and children as they fled toward the sea and their fishing boats. Because many bodies were lost at sea, the observers could not give an exact death toll, but witnesses claimed that at least 28 people had died. Soldiers hastily buried some victims in shallow graves that were soon...
Finally, your story did not make clear that the police were called to investigate noises heard in the predawn hours in a closed dormitory over Christmas vacation. The police entered to investigate, and they found Mr. Ntshanga who, by his own admission, repeatedly refused to disclose his name or the fact that he was a student. He was arrested only after being told that he would be arrested if he did not identify himself. Had he disclosed his name and provided an explanation of what he was doing in the dormitory--for example, that he worked for Harvard Student Agencies...