Word: afternoon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...yesterday afternoon, Frederic was 150 miles south of Pensacola. Forecasters predicted little change in the storm's strength before it reach land. Hurricane warnings were up from Panama City, Fla., to Grad Isle...
Florida Gov. Bob Graham yesterday afternoon ordered 1000 National Guardsmen to assist with the evacuation of 150,000 people, and police in Florida said they would use force, if necessary, to move people out of the danger areas...
...bloodshed had only begun. Late that same afternoon a three-vehicle convoy of British soldiers moved along a highway just inside the Ulster border. On the one side was Narrow Water, a peaceful estuary of Carlingford Lough; on the other a golf course. When the convoy passed a trailerload of hay parked beside the road, a huge bomb exploded, blasting a three-ton army truck across the highway and spewing wreckage and human bodies into the air. Surviving paratroopers radioed for help, and a contingent of the Queen's Own Highlanders, including its commanding officer, Lieut. Colonel David Blair...
...Narrow Water became like a scene from some fictional war film," reported TIME'S Ed Curran from Belfast. "Everywhere in the debris was blood and human flesh. Overhead the late afternoon sky was obscured by dense smoke rising from the wreckage. The soldiers who had survived staggered around and some opened fire across the Lough at two young men whom they apparently took to be the bombers. The tragedy of Narrow Water was now complete. The two were merely gawking at what had happened. One was shot in the arm; the other was killed. In addition, 18 soldiers, including...
...sedate crowd of about 3500 gathered in Tercentenary Theater yesterday afternoon for opening exercises to hear words of advice from the pillars of Harvard's administration...