Word: afternoon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sunny Friday afternoon, thousands of Chicago motorists lucky enough to get off to a fast start on the long Memorial Day weekend streamed out along Interstate 90. Brisk winds rippled the green field between the crowded highway and O'Hare International Airport. Half an hour later, the field was shrouded in black smoke, and firemen held hoses on a flaming aircraft engine. Police and other emergency workers stepped gingerly through scattered and smoldering wreckage, looking for signs of life. They found none...
Then came the news from Atlanta that a grand jury had finally indicted Carter's close friend and former budget director, Bert Lance. As a black thundercloud loomed over the White House one afternoon, a Carter staffer remarked, "With our luck, it's going to snow...
...writes on Sunday afternoon for the Tuesday paper, Monday afternoon for the Sunday magazine 20 days hence, and Thursday afternoon for the Saturday paper. He makes no effort to store up ideas. "It's like analysis; you block out the time and see what comes out." If he writes what he thinks is a bad column, he does not wad it up and start over. He publishes it. "Observer" is not a single point in space but a curving line of ups and downs, and the sagging author figures he will have another shot at splendor in a couple...
...came, he says, one afternoon when he had been sitting for some hours on the cold marble floor of a corridor in the Senate Office Building, outside a closed meeting of the Senate Armed Services Committee. "I began to wonder why, at the age of 37, I was wearing out my hams waiting for somebody to come...
...night was postponed from May 3 to May 24 to, at last notice, May 31. Meehan has been changing the script daily, and the actors must constantly learn new lines, lyrics and blocking. "I'd write a scene in the morning, they'd rehearse it in the afternoon and do it at night," says Meehan, who has been working about 18 hours a day. The cast has yet to perform the same version twice. "Some nights we get it, other nights we don't," says Maureen Silliman, who plays Katrine...