1.   A hail of bullets fired by the Israeli soldiers hit two vehicles carrying the officers, killing four of them and wounding two others in the predawn darkness.

2.   But they could see each other, which for some was ample reward for having made the trek through the predawn darkness.

3.   Early Tuesday, these two men found themselves in the predawn darkness following the game on the World Wide Web, hoping that this year might be different.

4.   In ritual fashion, free-lance TV cameraman Gary Sunkin trudged through the predawn darkness across the soggy front lawn of the Santa Monica Courthouse to perform his daily chore.

5.   In the predawn darkness, they landed back in Junction City, where McVeigh was renting a room at the Dreamland Motel.

6.   In the predawn darkness, Conde and his five American colleagues sped through the desert in UN Landrovers flanked by Iraqi security forces in black Mercedes sedans.

7.   Scores of police officers searched through the subway tunnels for the lone gunman and fanned out on the streets in the predawn darkness on a fruitless manhunt.

8.   Seven huge bears swam to their freedom in the predawn darkness.

9.   The drama unfolded in the predawn darkness.

10.   The escapees, who included women and children, fled into the surrounding hills and towns in predawn darkness.