Word: mid-day
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...hated her. Mai is a dairy farmer's daughter, a Tatla Gujjar, and the council members before her were all from a higher, landed caste group, the Mastoi Baloch. Mai's brother had dared to romance a girl from the higher caste, and in the dusty mid-day sun of rural Pakistani Punjab, a rowdy crowd gathered to demand eye-for-an-eye-style justice. The six seated elders finally delivered their judgment. To restore the caste's honor, they announced, Mai should be repeatedly raped. For the next hour, in a small barn nearby, three men penetrated Mai while...
...massive mid-day feast held between the two halves of the commencement exercises was often reported as the a favorite part of the commencement tradition...
...glass enclosure of the Greenhouse Cafe will receive a dual-glaze energy efficient coating, as well as increased solar shading so that the area does not get as hot at mid-day...
...hurtled through her self-test; when the nifty “Available Disk Space” piechart showed seven gigabytes of untrammeled roominess; when windows and menus sprang from her toolbars like a great splash in a clear lake; when your desktop sat empty and content, like a mid-day showing of Serendipity. What is it, then, that drives us to engage in unprotected interface with these ill-intentioned download sites? Certainly this irresponsible behavior is not a means to some kind of useful end; after you initially polluted your computer with Free Cell or College Jeopardy, how many times...
...Around mid-day a middle-aged Afghan woman turned up at our office gate. She appeared educated; at one time she probably belonged to the upper-middle class strata of her society. She looked hungry. She appeared desperate. She had a note written in English begging for a teaching job. Two days ago a stray bomb hit her house. Her sister and mother died. She has nobody...