Word: midday
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bound CBS executive set off for Boston, landed instead in Burlington, Vt., because Boston was socked in. The airline provided a limousine for the 220-mile drive to Boston; fog still ruled out the flight to Provincetown, so he rented a car and drove another 115 miles, arrived at midday Saturday only to set off again Sunday for the return trip, just as the fog rolled back...
...midday ceremonies Prince Bernhard will formally present Harvard with a $200,000 endowment to support a lecturer on Netherlands civilization for one semester a year or two consecutive terms every other year...
Living Torch. At the height of the midday shopping hour, Catherine Seydel, a 22-year-old student, picked out a dress she liked and entered a third-floor booth to try it on. Suddenly she heard a thunderous rumble on the floor above her. When she emerged from the booth, she entered a maelstrom of fear and panic. In rapid succession, flames had erupted in at least three locations around the store. Two of the store's 15 full-time firemen-the building had no sprinklers-tried to douse the flames with hand extinguishers, but retreated in the fast...
...very, very intelligent caliber of boys," he said-and very, very early risers too. Aboard the aircraft carrier Bon Homme Richard, he wailed, "they told me my first show would be at 8 a.m. Eight in the morning! A singer like me doesn't even spit before midday...
...that was unlike any ever before seen by man. Instead of being blotted out by the moon-as it is during solar eclipses seen on earth-the sun was temporarily hidden behind the earth. During the two hours that Surveyor was in the shadow cast by the eclipse, lunar midday temperatures plummeted from...