Word: predawn
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Fury & Urgency. In staging its curious predawn raids, the FBI was acting on orders from President John F. Kennedy himself. But for all the President's fury at the U.S. steel industry's unexpected price boost (see THE NATION), the early morning urgency was a pretty highhanded use of the FBI. The three newsmen had indeed all attended the Bethlehem stockholders' meeting, but what they had reported was far from earth shaking. Two of the men-the AP's Linder and the Wilmington Journal's Parks-had put Bethlehem President Edmund F. Martin on record...
...bedroom. Back in New Concord, Ohio, Glenn's home town, more than 1,000 people tensely watched the TV monitors set up in the Muskingum College gymnasium. Along a seven-mile stretch of beach near Cape Canaveral, a crowd of some 65,000 gathered in the predawn darkness...
...breed whose normal habitat covers just about every square mile of land in the U.S. They nest and feed very much as humans do, but at around the turn of the calendar every winter, they roost in icy swamps, deep forests, river and creek shores, arriving there usually in predawn darkness, armed with cameras, binoculars, telescopes, field guides and silence. They are a kind of rara avis whose purpose it is to count birds and species of birds, with the emphasis, of course, on the rara avis...
...with ships and marines lying twelve miles offshore, finally concluded that the Dominicans were not about to settle their own quarrel. Arriving at a predawn meeting of government and U.C.N. negotiators at a private home, Arturo Morales Carrión, an assistant U.S. Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, and U.S. Vice Consul David Shaw moved in and virtually took command. They alternately guided, cajoled and stormed. Government negotiators at last agreed to a formula in favor of a seven-member Council of State. President Balaguer would have until Feb. 27 to resign with dignity, would be empowered...
...predawn moments of a long Washington night, a handful of U.S. Senators wound up the business of the 87th Congress' first session in a mood of frustration and anger...