Word: midday
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these men are tired. If they work by day, they are kept up by bombing or shelling at night; if at night, there is always a midday raid. They risk sickness, and some have succumbed despite synthetic medicines. . . . And yet they are cheerful...
Elsewhere the mildest season reached from coast to coast. Warm in southern California, a perfect day for swimming in the Pacific, unseasonably warm in Kansas City, cloudy in the morning when the city went to church, sunny by the beginning of the tragic midday. In San Antonio "the day was coolish and switched from grey to clear. . . . Out in wooded Bracken-Park, kids were riding the ferris wheel and flying jenny; babies were being held in swings; miniature trains were tooting and whistling as kids were whirled by adoring parents. . . . The main streets were pretty full of wistful-eyed window...
...south, at the river mouths. In the spring, the south is a grey, heat-beaten land, where only the rivers are cool and even the wide rice paddies gape with cracks in the baking earth. It is a time when prudent men, fools, even Englishmen stay out of the midday sun. But the Japs fought in the sun, and drove the British steadily up the Irrawaddy and Sittang valleys. Then the Chinese came down from the north...
...Sunday midday, clear and sunny. Many a citizen was idly listening to the radio when the flash came that the Japanese had attacked Hawaii. In Topeka they were listening to The Spirit of '41 and napping on their sofas after dinner. In San Francisco, where it was not quite noon, they were listening to the news, Philharmonic and Strings in Swingtime. In Portland, Maine, where it was cold but still sunny, they were lining up for the movies...
Every morning he is counted, every midday...