Word: midday
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...atabrine). Wartime scientific research, which solved many of the problems of tropical living, also debunked a few old notions: that meat-eating in the tropics is bad, that white men cannot do physical labor in the hot season, that only "mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday...
...Stonewall Jackson, an "indifferent and slouchy looking man" whom some thought "deranged," suddenly halts while on midday reconnaissance, dismounts, unbuckles his sword, goes to sleep with his head on the root of a tree...
...earth, even without the advantage of a directional beam. Power could come from batteries. The whole apparatus would have to be designed to deal with the vacuum of space, and designed to operate both in extreme cold and in the high temperature (250° F.) of the lunar midday. To Dr. Hutcheson such difficulties were minor...
...sunrise, at midday and at dusk, church bells call to each other across the Emilian plain. In the past year anticlerical terrorists in the diocese of Reggio Emilia, near Bologna, had answered the bells by murdering five priests. Two months ago the Vatican sent to the tough district a tough bishop, Beniamino Socche...
Hides & Oil. At the stroke of midday, resplendent in the blue, gold encrusted dress uniform of a brigadier general (his new rank), Perón strode into the great hall of Congress. Floor and gallery gleamed with the brass of generals, the polish of diplomats-come to honor a man whose name few of them even knew three years...