Word: late-afternoon
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...Abizaid, Rumsfeld showed no emotion. The two men discussed the possibility of having mistakenly nabbed a double and not Saddam himself--both had been down that road before. But this time Abizaid was virtually certain, and Rumsfeld rang off to telephone the President with the news. Rumsfeld's late-afternoon schedule was scrubbed, a hoped-for game of squash canceled. At a holiday party that night at his home, he gave no hint that he had the ace in the hole...
...different scene that day. They describe heavy fighting that indiscriminately mowed down civilians. Samarra citizens contend that only eight bodies were found after the fighting, at least two of them clearly noncombatants. They estimate that 54 civilians were wounded, including some hit near a mosque as they gathered for late-afternoon prayers. Samarrans reacted with deep anger to America's show of overwhelming firepower, which pockmarked swaths of the city with bullet holes, wrecked cars in the streets and killed and wounded many innocents. Even now, it's impossible to judge which version is closer to the truth...
...blame him for saying the unsayable. But the thought hangs uncomfortably in the late-afternoon air. And we both know that the sober force of history is not about to be thwarted by an old bowling club...
...that you just can’t (or don’t want to) read that 600-page monstrosity of incomprehensible blather. Response paper? Maybe next week. Morning lecture? Yeeeeah, maybe I’ll catch it when it gets released on video. Afternoon lecture? Sorry, it might interfere with my lunch, mid-afternoon nap, late-afternoon snack and/or later-afternoon malt liquor-tasting...
...three-year-old. To help him reach his quota of 11 hours a day, lately I've been letting him doze in the car while I drive the girls to their after-school activities. But that means he often stays up later than his sisters, which puts his parents at risk of a breakdown. Owens suggested we end the late-afternoon car naps and instead take our son to his room well before then and help him find his midday circadian trough, one of two low points humans experience in energy level each day. (The other...