Word: midafternoon
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...midafternoon, with some 20 people already dead, Ngo Dinh Diem still held out in his barricaded palace. Emissaries shuttled back and forth between the two sides. Diem offered to fire his Cabinet but refused the rebel demand that he resign. Diem's stubborn courage began to pay off. Marine, infantry and commando units moved into the city and, after wavering all night, declared their loyalty to him. Outmanned, the paratroopers fled. When a throng of civilians advanced on the palace waving "Diem Must Go" signs, the pro-Diem marines fired point-blank into the packed crowd, killing at least...
...described it as a high-altitude, single-engined weather research plane-which it surely is. But the public rarely got a look at it. Then one day last September members of a Japanese glider club were shooting landings at a light-plane strip 40 miles southwest of Tokyo. In midafternoon a black jet, its engine dead, wobbled down on the strip...
...They get haircuts and permanents when they please, sunbathe on the hospital roof, play cards, browse in the gift shop, receive visitors from noon until 8 p.m. One man got permission to go home for some summer shirts when the weather turned warm. A housewife used to get a midafternoon snack of scrambled-egg sandwich and caramel sundae. Exclaimed she: "I had no idea being in a hospital could be so much fun. I did have one problem today. I just could not find a fourth for bridge...
Firing from the small windows of his concrete block cellar, Raymond kept police pinned down from 8:30 a.m. to midafternoon, escaped the stream of bullets pumped into the house by a 30-cal. machine gun set up in a general store 200 yards away. Finally, frustrated state police sent an urgent appeal to Governor David Lawrence, who approved use of a Walker bulldog tank manned by National Guardsmen to flush the killer. Rushed in by flatcar, the 25-ton tank lumbered to Chalk Hill, circled the bullet-pocked bungalow as police fired from the cover...
...after the battle." At midmorning next day, the men were still fighting. Two Forest Service planes-a converted 6-24 and a Navy torpedo bomber-began bombing hot spots with 500-gal. loads of a slurry made of bentonite and water. Slowly the fire fighters won control, and by midafternoon Deadwood's residents were told to come back home...