Word: predawn
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...were gunned down by renegade leftist radicals on Oct. 19. They had fearfully endured a round-the-clock curfew imposed by an undisciplined military regime that issued orders to kill any violators. They had huddled in their houses after the American invaders had jolted them awake in a furious predawn assault...
...MONTH can seem like a long time--particularly a month punctuated by sudden awakenings, multiple predawn and post witching-hour evictions, and cold air creeping up under the nightshirt. A month in which more than 80-fire alarms go off is far too long, and so it was heartening to hear last week that the College had decided to do something about its unmanageably sensitive machinery...
Parkinson and Thatcher learned of the interview in the predawn hours Friday. The resignation was announced at 9:45 a.m. Said a senior Tory minister: "At some point, someone in this affair lied." In the messiest possible way, Thatcher had lost a close personal protege and left herself open to questions about her judgment of people and events...
...Cessna dropped a bomb near the home of Foreign Minister Miguel D'Escoto, who happened to be in Panama City at a meeting of Latin American foreign ministers. The bomb missed D'Escoto's house, no one was injured and the plane flew off into the predawn darkness. A few minutes later a second Cessna appeared, over Augusto César Sandino Airport, about eight miles outside the city. A 500-lb. bomb landed near the hangar of Aeronica, the national airline, causing minor damage, and Nicaraguan soldiers reportedly opened fire with antiaircraft guns along the runways...
...Soviets had every right of international law to send fighters up to inspect the intruder. Common sense, however, suggests that even the most expert observer flying some six miles high in the dim predawn light is not likely to see anything that U.S. surveillance satellites have not repeatedly scrutinized and photographed in far greater detail...