Word: midafternoon
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...Vinson rites, the President had a tender embrace for Mrs. Vinson, a brief handshake for Harry Truman, who was also among the mourners. By midafternoon, Ike was off again for Denver, ordering the Columbine's Pilot William Draper to pour on the speed. The President had a personal reason for urgency: his son, Major John Eisenhower, was due to land in Denver at 9 o'clock that night, after 14 months in Korea. Ike got to Denver with 2½ hours to spare...
...years the 500 employees of Sheffield machine tools factory "mashed" (Sheffield lingo for brewed) their own tea at midmorning, lunchtime and midafternoon. They brought their own tea, milk, sugar, mugs and teapots, got boiling water from the firm's gas boilers...
...along with her regular treatment, Joey began her investment. It had been a long time since her student days in a Manila convent. The return to books was not easy. She plunged into a schedule of classes that lasted from 8:30 in the morning until midafternoon, five days a week, with every seventh week off for a rest...
...lovers and tourists. But his steadiest customers are the poor. When the shoeshiner's family takes a trip on the second-class bus, the cilindrero plays Las Golondrinas at the sendoff. He performs at dances for those who cannot afford to hire mariachis or fancy bands. When at midafternoon he shuffles into the big patio of a working-class tenement, children shriek, dogs bark, chickens scurry around, and women drop their housework to listen to his loud, lively songs. Then coins drop from some of the windows, and his partner scrambles for the centavos. Late in the day, dusty...
...little girl went home at noon, went into convulsions at midafternoon and was dead at 6. After an autopsy, Homicide Detective Chester Eldredge announced that she appeared to have been brutally beaten, had died from a ruptured intestine, internal bleeding and an infection. Russ was charged with second-degree murder. He wept, and cried, "I blame myself." But he said he was sure that it was only the dive that caused Kathy's bruises...