Word: midday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tuesday at midday, eight days after the Middle East war began, U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold announced that Britain and France had agreed to a ceasefire. The gunfire might cease, but the unpleasant aftermath would be with the world for a long time...
...followed Corot's advice always to paint out of doors. Pissarro made no effort to turn the young peasant woman into a monumental symbol, but accepted her as part of the landscape. His real joy, as his broad brush strokes show, was in catching on the spot the midday heat and glitter...
Like most well-tended babies in the well-tended homes of Westbury, N.Y., brown-haired Peter Weinberger was sleeping off his midday bottle when his mother stepped into the house for a fresh diaper one afternoon last week. Fifteen minutes later, Beatrice Weinberger walked outside and found that 32-day-old Peter had been kidnaped. On the ground was a neatly written note demanding $2,000 ransom, to be placed near a neighbor's garage. Wrote the kidnaper: "I'm scared stiff. Do not notify the police until noon tomorrow or I'll be forced to kill...
...hour before the opening trading gong. At the first sketchy reports, there was a burst of selling while traders waited anxiously for more complete word on the President's condition. As it came, the market hung on the doctor's bulletins. When news reached Wall Street at midday that Ike was headed for the hospital in an ambulance, there was a rush to sell. The ticker ran five minutes late, and the Dow-Jones industrial average dropped 15 points. But later, when Ike's illness was diagnosed as intestinal trouble having nothing to do with the heart...
...almost never go out, very rarely entertain. In summertime, however, when the family gets home to Doddsville. all this changes. There the unpretentious, six-bedroom frame house, surrounded on three sides by cotton fields, bulges with guests. Says Eastland: "We always have at least five guests for dinner [at midday] and one or two staying the night." There, too, Jim can get his fill of hunting, and ride his two Tennessee walking horses...