Word: midday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days, the air was so black that Londoners could see no more than a yard ahead. Drivers were forced to leave cars and buses to peer closely at street signs to find out where they were. Policemen strapped on respiratory masks. The Manchester Guardian reported that London's midday sun "hung sulkily in the dirty sky with no more radiance than an unlit Chinese lantern...
...will most interest many Americans, though, is the time it takes to drive the four miles from Manhattan's Battery Park to Times Square: three weeks. Weeks? Today, some people can make it in nearly three hours. But there is nothing intrinsically unbelievable about the figure. Traffic at midday in mid-Manhattan makes slow molasses seem like a moun tain-stream cascade, and the 11½ m.p.h. that horse-drawn carriages could do in 1907 seem like a race at Aqueduct. Slowly but inexorably, the cherished mobility of Americans is being eroded by a growing number of strains...
...before DeSalvo was arrested again. On Nov. 3, 1964, he was taken into custody by Cambridge police who identified him as the "Green Man" (he wore green work pants) who had been raping women in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. On one day, between 9 a.m. and midday, he had assaulted four women in four towns. Indeed, DeSalvo told police, he had sexually assaulted perhaps 1,000 women in recent years -possibly 2,000, counting rapes in Germany, where he had been a G.I. in the occupation forces for five years...
Working on a leisurely schedule. Surveyor reported a new set of midday temperature readings and shot a short test series of television pictures. Additional picture taking was put off until later in the lunar day, when lengthening shadows would bring out more detail and perhaps even help determine if any meteors had struck near by since the last pictures. Then suddenly, a short circuit caused the battery temperature to soar to what appeared to be fatally high levels. Surveyor hurriedly made another TV sweep of the moonscape, and scientists resigned themselves to its end at last. But just as they...
...monastery, the nation's most sacred shrine, which stands on a high hill overlooking Czestochowa. On May 3, the traditional Polish national holiday, the pilgrims prayed and sang before a giant outdoor altar through some twelve hours of Masses, sermons and processions that began in steamy, 90° midday heat and lasted until a full, honey-colored moon hung...