Word: midafternoon
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...uphill trail got tougher and more slippery all the time. But by midafternoon, even the tenderest feet were firmly planted on a windblown, grassy highland. Off in the distance gleamed San Francisco Bay; beyond it, looming out of the sea itself, was Mount Tamalpais, its summit aswirl with purpling, swiftly scudding clouds. The hikers' blisters were forgotten now, the land had worked its magic; there were no newcomers any more...
...midafternoon almost every day this month, mannerly crowds file into the drab and muggy Festspielhaus in Bayreuth to witness an opera by Rich ard Wagner. It is nearly midnight when they file out again - hungry and exhausted, perhaps, but elevated by a sense of hard cultural accomplishment. The music, as always, has worked its mystic wonders on them, but - except for that band of initiates known as Wagnerites - the drama has left them plagued by the kind of metaphysical confusion that comes from attending services at somebody else's church...
...Communists died in the 25-minute running fire fight, but the other two escaped and were trailed northward by a growing force of G.I.s and South Koreans. Four helicopters flew low overhead, and their prop wash parted the reeds and kept the running North Koreans in sight. At midafternoon, exhausted and surrounded, each Communist pulled the pin from a grenade, fell upon it and committed suicide...
...Duty." The second confrontation came 4½ hours after the first. In midafternoon, Brigadier General Henry V. Graham, assistant commander of the 31st Infantry, an Alabama Guard division, walked up to Governor Wallace and saluted. "It is my sad duty," the general said gently, "to inform you that the National Guard has been federalized. Please stand aside so that the order of the court may be accomplished...
...finally broke through next day -and so did the penitent Americans. In the morning, U.S. golfers swept all four Scotch foursomes (in which the two men on each team take turns hitting the ball) and led by the score of 7-6. By midafternoon, they had added three straight singles victories. On the 16th green, two up over England's Mike Lunt, New Jersey's Bob Gardner, 41, was surveying a tricky, 4-ft. putt when Captain Tufts whispered in his ear. "Bob," he said, "this is the one we need." Gardner calmly stepped up, sank the putt...