Word: predawn
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...Roger Bishop was already making his second stop of the day at the hospital in Marion, Ill., a small (pop. 13,000) coal-mining town in the southern part of the state. He had delivered a baby there in the predawn hours. Now, after a short nap, the 30-year-old physician was back for his regular morning rounds. At the bedside of an 88-year-old man who had wrenched his back in a fall, he offered the cheering words that he could go home the next day. Checking the condition of a 59-year-old housewife, he satisfied...
When moving day arrived, OV (for Orbiter Vehicle) 101, christened Enterprise to the delight of thousands of Star Trek fans, was jacked up and loaded onto its transporter. Then in predawn darkness, officials gave the signal to start. Led by vehicles from the Los Angeles County sheriffs office (including a bomb-squad truck), accompanied by an extra tractor and back-up generator, and followed by two busloads of blue-vested Rockwell "handlers," who took turns walking alongside the craft, the convoy set out at a stately 4.8 kilometers (3 miles) per hour for Edwards...
...Jonathan Trumbull, an early governor of Connecticut. At one point after she was widowed, her mother ran a combination restaurant and catering service with the help of Flicka and her brother. Flicka now easily throws together an impromptu meal for dozens of friends, but winces when she remembers a predawn preparation for a wedding feast...
...skill and charm, approaches the pangs and pleasures of aging in ways that very much recall Walden's formula: keep track of housekeeping details and the transcendental homilies will take care of themselves. At home Hough's day still begins as it has for years, with a predawn walk to Edgartown's harbor light. Graham goes along but does not always agree to the route his master has chosen, and, like many Americans, has "a weakness for excavation." If in his daily round of mail and meals, of musings and memories, Hough feels a pronouncement coming...
During the predawn hours of Feb. 18, 1970, on a jungle hilltop near the village of Chu Lai, South Viet Nam, an outgoing shell from a U.S. Army howitzer accidentally struck a treetop and exploded above the men of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, Americal Division. Six were injured, two were killed. One of them was Michael Mullen, 25, the fifth generation of his family to farm the same fertile Iowa acreage. Michael was pierced by a small crescent of steel that tore a hole in his heart. He was sleeping and died instantly...