Word: midday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the shadowed haven of the wings, the stage of Broadway's Mark Hellinger Theater looked as big and lonely as a desert at midday. Its barren boards reflected a fierce, mote-filled glare from banked and blazing floodlights, and out beyond it, in the hushed cavern of the theater, the audience waited like a beast in its den-multi-headed, thousand-eyed, impatient and menacingly silent. It was a terrible place for a ballplayer to find himself on the eve of the World Series...
...band of University maintenance men who annually assemble the speakers platform took time out yesterday to make their traditional predictions of the famous figures who will receive honorary degrees at Harvard's 800th commencement. But the uncomfortable midday heat apparently made the sawdust sooth-sayers more waggish than usual as 46 percent of those polled selected gambler Frank Costello as their first commencement choice...
Doffing their parkas in the warm midday sun, marines moved carefully toward the town. On the west, the tanks of the ist Cavalry Division kept pace with and sometimes outsped the leathernecks. The cavalrymen flanked Hongchon on the west, and the marines hauled up for the night a short distance south. The town was quiet...
...twin brother Clifton, head psychologist of Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church, was conducting five similar groups. Psychologist Kew's sessions are frankly secular; Minister Kew, who conducts his sessions wearing a cassock and clerical collar, gets most of his patients from churches or through the special midday services which he conducts for those who are troubled in spirit. Both brothers, however, look upon the church setting as an important element in their work. Reasons: 1) it gives added authority to the therapist; 2) it provides a familiar atmosphere "of protection, love and forgiveness"; 3) it reduces the patient...
...holidays. The lads, aged 9 to 17, sons of prominent Caracas families, were students at Father Vélaz' Colegio de San Jose at Merida in western Venezuela; two were nephews of President German Suárez Flamerich. As they walked out to the plane in the midday heat, strapping, Chilean-born Father Vélaz waved goodbye...