Word: half-past
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BARCELONA, Spain — The minutes move differently here. Their texture is strange, their flavor almost unrecognizable. Half-past three doesn’t feel the same. Neither does midnight...
...last time I masturbated it was half-past ten and the time was ripe for self-exploration. There was just one problem: all of these boys kept telling me not to masturbate...
...pacifist and foe of all establishments, governmental, religious and bureaucratic, and began writing novels of protest against war (The Train Was on Time, 1949; Adam, Where Art Thou, 1951), then went on to describe and deride the materialistic, dehumanizing postwar society in such works as Billiards at Half-Past Nine (1959), The Clown (1963) and Group Portrait with Lady (1971). A crusader for the freedom of writers everywhere, especially under Communism, Böll was considered Germany's most influential writer since Thomas Mann, and in conscious evocation of his predecessor he was often called "the conscience of the nation...
...Half-past ten and house music was pounding. Ravers and British-dance-music groupies wandered the floors at Axis, still only at half-tilt even though the concert tickets said it would start at ten. Then the strains of Imagination's '70s disco classic "Just an Illusion" came over the speakers, a hint of lu Cont's love for good dancing music regardless of its cheesy associations. This segued into the sound of a robotic voice...
...half-past seven the lights are lit and the copy box begins its merciless accompaniment to the printer's sharp cry, "Carp-e-e." This box is primarily an invention for conveying manuscript from the desk to the printing room. From then on, the managing editor's business is to keep his head and to see that order and reason prevails in all matters concerning the paper and himself. Candidates come in with botched stories and wonderful excuses. All have to be attended to and set on the straight path promptly. Editors must need be coaxed into getting down...