Hints and tips:
...Gravely kind in their welcome to a stranger, they say, “Bom dia,” as their children cry, “Tata batane!” — hello friend....
...The commission said this week it was “gravely concerned over what it sees as blatant, aggressive and unabashed attempts to manipulate the outcome of the upcoming elections”....
...That dawn tweet, which I sent at 6.08am while listening to Mishal Husain on the BBC, became my guiding principle over the next 28 months in government. It was not a result I wanted....
...Wong still has a hand in the trade and usually wakes up before dawn to work the phones....
...It’s hard to know what’s most awkward, the idea of morning “dropping” in the first place, or the choice of “hazel” to describe the colour of a northern dawn....
...Primo Levi characterises Rabelais — an unlikely choice of literary hero for Levi until one realises, from the magnificently compendious The Complete Works edited by Ann Goldstein, that lurking within the gravely...
...Seven days in Rome: day one, passport control, you look for the hidden camera because the officer who flicks a finger at you to come forward is sporting mirrored sunglasses and nine o’clock shadow at dawn...
...But the mood shifted as the shock of Monday’s dawn killing of pro-Morsi protesters in Cairo reverberated and armoured vehicles moved in to protect the governor’s headquarters....
...Francis weaves their stories together in a manner that, like the best pub conversations, seems at once utterly inconsequential and gravely significant....
...At dawn on Wednesday, the army, which has been accused in the west of failing to challenge the militants, airlifted troops behind Taliban lines and, it claimed, forced them to retreat....
...John shrugged gravely. “I just don’t know.” 12:00. The marathon began with some theatricality....
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