Word: predawn
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...stood deep within the Bois de Verri�res just south of Paris. Above the boy's head, a giant oak reared away into the predawn darkness. "Tell me," he asked the man, "are there wolves here?" The man placed a reassuring hand on the nape of the boy's neck. "No, my little Luc, there are no wolves." Slowly the man's hand tightened...
First came the murder of Kitty Genovese in the predawn darkness of the quiet, middle-class community of Kew Gardens. The murderer was a lunatic who had never seen her before. It took 35 minutes; the killer left and returned three times to stab her again and again while Kitty Genovese staggered and screamed and dragged herself along the street. The interesting thing about it was that the police established that at least 37 neighbors, roused out of bed by Kitty's screams, had stared out their dark windows at one time or another, but none of them...
...During a predawn card game with a guard in his Dallas County jail cell, Ruby asked for a glass of water and, when left alone, charged headfirst into a plaster cell wall. He suffered only a two-inch cut and a knot on his skull; moments later, guards found him trying to rip his white jail uniform into strips - presumably to fashion a noose...
John Wesley thought that preaching at 5 o'clock in the morning was one of the world's best exercises. Kennedy has never tested his oratory on predawn Los Angeles, but he does rise at 5:30 for a quick breakfast, then scoots off to his office for an hour or two of serious theo logical reading (he still likes Reinhold Niebuhr best) before office work begins. Kennedy heads the fastest-growing area in his church; with his "bishop's cabinet" of nine superintendents, he heads 700 ministers and 460 churches, and his lay membership has grown...
...always concerned with the state of Vientiane's Thai Dam pagoda. They believe that the black Buddhist shrine is in reality a cork that holds back an evil demon. Last week, when flares arched over the Thai Dam and the rattle of rifle fire broke Vientiane's predawn quiet, many Laotians feared that the cork had come unstuck...