Word: predawn
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...Lyons thrived as a night person and predawn writer, turned out six columns (and about 6,000 words) a week. He remained the star-struck son of a Rumanian Jewish immigrant and chucked a law career in 1934 when the New York Post finally bent to years of entreaties and made him a columnist (at $50 a week). His refusal to monger scandal earned him the trust that the famous withheld from more waspish types like Walter Winchell and Dorothy Kilgallen. On George Bernard Shaw's 90th birthday, he granted Lyons an exclusive interview. Ernest Hemingway's wife...
...prisoner stands in the modern, well-lighted classroom and begins self consciously to read from his manuscript. It is the rollicking story of a predawn police raid on the upstate New York home of LSD Guru Timothy Leary. The informally dressed audience - 29 other inmates and an instructor who is himself an ex-con - laughs appreciatively at the description of troopers peering inside, hoping for a glimpse of porno films but seeing only flickering psychedelic lights. When the cops finally storm the place, they find no orgy, no mob of spaced-out kids. Instead, Leary, dressed in white pajamas, comes...
Housewives in hair curlers knit sweaters at the wheels of then-station wagons in the predawn blackness of Miami. Young couples in Manhattan, armed with sandwiches and hot chocolate, invite friends along for an evening of gasoline shopping. Connecticut executives regale each other with lurid tales of mile-long queues and two-hour waits at the pump. Otherwise sane citizens are in the cold grip of the nation's newest obsession: gasoline fever...
...year-round Daylight Saving Time on the nation, the idea was to cut down on energy consumption. Whether that has actually happened is still being widely debated, but the shift to an earlier rising period has already had one disturbing result - the danger that school-bound youngsters face from predawn auto drivers. In Florida, eight children died in early morning traffic accidents after the time change took place early in January; there were two such deaths during the same period in 1973. "Daylight Saving Time in the winter," said one TV commentator, "has proven to be Daylight Disaster Time...
...morning last week he steamed into the White House in the predawn dark to start another day of his three careers: aide, diplomat, personal confidant. He swept through the lobby greeting secretaries and settled at his table in front of the tall windows to address a soft-boiled egg and black coffee...