Word: midday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seven Days to Noon (London Films). A top British atomic scientist, in acute moral distress over his work, sends an ultimatum to No. 10 Downing Street: unless the government publicly renounces the manufacture of atomic bombs within seven days, he will set one off in the heart of midday London. The discovery that Professor Willingdon (Barry Jones) is indeed missing from his government laboratory- along with a potent U.K. 12 that could fit into his small satchel-touches off a major crisis in London and a major moviemaking feat by Britain's young (37) producing-directing twins...
...miners' wives, their scarves tightly knotted beneath blue pinched faces, stood round the pithead in stunned misery, while Salvation Army officers served tea and prayed, and squeaking shaft wheels lowered rescue teams into the smoke-choked mine. Meanwhile, grim-faced union and government officials sat in conference. At midday they issued a statement...
...nine years, buxom, baby-voiced Mary Margaret McBride has been a gossipy midday fixture on Manhattan's station WNBC, once crowded Yankee Stadium with 45,000 of her fervid admirers. Last week, because WNBC inadvertently sold someone else 15 minutes of her show, Mary Margaret huffily announced that she would move her 17 sponsors and $500,000 in billings over to rival station...
...Season. In Sheridan, Wyo., residents who turned up at the municipal swimming pool on the hottest day of the year (100° at midday) were greeted by a notice reading "Closed for the Winter...
...gave up his usual early morning walks ; after rising, he went directly to his desk to read mail* and sign bills. Most of the time, his midday jaunt to the naval station's crushed-coral beach was his only outdoor activity...