Word: predawn
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...predawn scheduling of the operation was meant to minimize publicity and protests. But reporters got wind of it and watched through the windows of Phoenix House as Vietnamese shouted and cried, some holding up makeshift signs saying WE'D RATHER DIE THAN GO BACK TO VIET NAM. No force appeared to be used...
...carrying $2 million worth of illicit tusks and rhino horns was fined a mere $2,613 by Botswa officials last year. His cargo was said to be bound for a South African firm with Hong Kong connections. Despite crackdowns, the poachers are undaunted. Just two weeks ago, in a predawn raid on a farm, Namibian officials seized 980 tusks...
...first indication of a coup was an ominous radio silence in the predawn hours of Friday. Then at 8 a.m., Radio Omdurman, Sudan's official station, resumed with martial music, followed by a solemn announcement: "The June Revolution has come to restore to the Sudanese citizen his injured dignity and rebuild the Sudan of the future...
What can the attraction be? It is, after all, a three-day uphill trek to the foot of the final peak, and then a predawn slog of two practically vertical miles to the top. On the way, walkers are alternately roasted by the tropical sun and chilled by low alpine temperatures; they sleep in unheated, unlighted huts, wash in ice-cold water and, after five days, emerge from the mountain dirty, haggard and exhausted. "Maybe the only satisfaction comes from looking back on it afterward," suggests climber Matt Claman, 29, a lawyer from Juneau...
...accommodate the students were rejected by the Politburo Standing Committee, the highest policymaking body of the Communist Party. Others in Beijing claim that the party chief's fall, which could well presage a purge of other liberal reformers, came partly because of remarks he made during a remarkable predawn visit with Li to the hunger strikers on Friday...