Word: afternoon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Peter's used a full-court press to frustrate Harvard all afternoon, and most of the pressure came from the quick and relentless Dames at the point. Monti and sophomore point guard Lisa Kowal combined for 12 turnovers in the game, 10 of those in the first half...
Tahan was taunted by the crowd as the afternoon stretched into evening. When asked whether he would be handed over to the police, the crowd replied loudly that he would not. "We don't trust the police," shouted one man. "We're going to make him into grilled meat," said another. A third man simply lifted his head and ran his finger across his throat. Though several hundred soldiers and policemen were deployed on a road barely 100 yards away, they said they had no orders to intervene. Tahan was stabbed to death at about...
...California freeway from Mountain View to Cupertino was jammed late Tuesday afternoon. Netscape's entire work force was traveling as if in procession to a nearby college auditorium--one big enough to accommodate all 1,200 for what would be the saddest-ever of Netscape's legendary "all-hands" meetings. The rumors had become official: America Online was buying their feisty company. As you might imagine, none of the people there greeted this as good news. "Netscape is dead," an employee said bitterly. "This was the funeral...
...Ford was from modest, agrarian Michigan roots. And he thought that the guys who made the cars ought to be able to afford one themselves so that they too could go for a spin on a Sunday afternoon. In typical fashion, instead of listening to his backers, Ford eventually bought them...
...with queasy stomachs had no place one afternoon last week on the overpass at the No. 4 gate of Henry Ford's great River Rouge plant." So began TIME's account of the Battle of the Overpass, the confrontation that made May 26, 1937, a red-letter day in labor history and brought to national attention a young United Auto Workers official named Walter P. Reuther...