Word: midafternoon
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Security was stepped up sharply. For the first time since the overthrow of Marcos, reporters were not allowed on the Malacanang Palace grounds. Checkpoints were installed on roads leading into the capital. In midafternoon, as soon as she had told the nation of her decision to oust Enrile, the President gave the oath of office to Ileto. Then she went to the Quirino grandstand in Manila's Rizal Park and declared at a religious rally that the country had been spared a catastrophe. "I suppose our prayers have again been answered," she said, "because this afternoon we have once again...
Borrell began making travel plans as soon as news of the U.S.-Libya clash reached Egypt. Since it was already past midnight in Cairo and direct air travel from Egypt to Libya is nonexistent, Borrell phoned a travel agent in Seattle (where it was still midafternoon) to book air passage through Zurich. Eight hours later he was in Tripoli, trying to pry a few nuggets of information from the Libyan government. "The biggest frustration," says Borrell, "was that the action was hundreds of miles away, out in the gulf...
Subway riders at the Harvard Square station yesterday afternoon had words of praise for the proposed project. "It's worth coming down to the T just for the art," said one midafternoon commuter. Said another, "It's all right, it's kind of European...
...previous shuttle flight, and the number grew to nearly 1,200 in the hours following the explosion. But most reporters were hard pressed to uncover ; scraps of news, as NASA officials at both Cape Canaveral and the Johnson Space Center in Houston refused all comment. "By midafternoon there was a circling of the wagons," said a NASA employee in Houston. "There was a feeling of overwhelming revulsion toward the media vultures...
...Thousands of raving, stumbling drunks, getting angrier and angrier they lose more an more money. By midafternoon they'll be gazzling mint with both hands and vomiting on each other between races. The whole place will be jammed with bodies, shoulder shoulder. It's hard to move around. The aisles will be stick with vomit, people falling down and grabbing at your legs to keep from getting stomped. Drunks passing on themselves in the betting lines. Dropping handfuls of money and fighting to stoop over and pick it up. Hunter S. Thompson. "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved...