Word: midafternoon
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...Behind him the sky paled, silhouetting his stocky figure. Haganah Bren guns riveted bullets in a straight line across his body. Abdul Kader fell dead. As news of the battle reached Jerusalem, Arab reinforcements streamed out to Kastel in armored cars, trucks and battered U.S.-made taxis. By midafternoon, 2,000 strong, they occupied the village...
...body is affected by various atmospheric conditions (temperature, humidity, etc.), Curry decided that the health-governing material in air is a mysterious gas he calls "aran." Aran's concentration in the air, Curry computed, varies with the time of day (it is low at night and high in midafternoon, and with the weather (low in warm south winds, high in cool north winds). He is pretty certain that varying the concentration of aran can increase or decrease inflammation, start bleeding, and produce all sorts of spasms...
...Midafternoon, the two sentries patrolling the entry through the barbed wire to Goldsmith House were startled by a small explosion in the rear of the building. Then bullets whizzed around them. One soldier fell, dead. A truck rumbled through the wire opening. Covered by a spray of machine gun and rifle fire from nearby buildings, three men dashed to the truck. Out of it and into the club's door and open windows they heaved suitcases. In a moment there was a heavy explosion. Hours later, when the rubble had been combed, the British announced the toll: 16 killed...
...head man, Wadsworth gets to his Cross Street headquarters in midafternoon, has supper sent up from the office canteen. He directs the brief 5 o'clock news conference, assigns the leaders, manages to turn out one long leader himself each week. He is careful to see that the Guardian's news is displayed with grace and readability, but has no intention of putting news on the ad-covered front page. "We think that what the hasty reader loses," he says, "the careful reader gains from a nicer inside make...
...Most of my work," says Bootsie, "is done in bed." There she breakfasts, reads the papers (including the Journal-American, to see, as she says, what her husband has snitched from her column), pecks out her column. In midafternoon, she starts a round of cocktail parties (her drink: orange juice) and dinners. At these gatherings she caches her notebook in the ladies' room, makes frequent trips there to jot down the items she overhears. By 1 a.m. she is back in bed. Once a week she sees her husband, "Ghighi." They meet in New York because, says Bootsie...