Word: midday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...without a newspaper, scarcely a telephone, and little traffic beyond bicycles and canvas-topped cyclo taxis. The only industry is a lime plant employing 50 people. Lunch is a leisurely three-hour affair. A woman dropping her cooking pans can shatter the tree-shaded silence at midday for blocks around. The facade is deceiving. The site of Viet Nam's first university in 1918, Hué is the intellectual-and Buddhist-capital of the nation. It is also the capital of the nation's discontent, a place where politics is an obsession and proud factionalism the overarching fact...
...shopping carts racing against a clock. Envy, too, is an important ingredient of the game-show recipe. The housewife who abandons diaper and vacuum cleaner to watch Jeopardy or You Don't Say! sits red-and green-eyed as other women-coifed and dressed in their finest at midday-win money and refrigerators and play charades ("lie, czar, rust . . . Lazarus!") with real, live, ever-popular, never-to-be-forgotten celebrities such as Alan King, Tom Poston, Morey Amsterdam, and what's-his-name...
Three red signal flares soared upward, bathing the Oder River in a garish crimson. Seconds later, 140 huge antiaircraft searchlights and the lights of hundreds of tanks, trucks and other vehicles flashed on and illuminated the German lines brighter than a midday sun. Then three green flares soared into the heavens, and more than 20,000 guns of all calibers erupted with an earsplitting, earth-shaking roar. The German countryside beyond the Kustrin bridgehead seemed to explode. Entire villages disintegrated. Earth, concrete, steel, bits of trees spewed into the air. The concussion from the thundering guns was so tremendous that...
...Americans currently at Oxford as Rhodes scholars. Heiskell, who is a member of the board of trustees of Bennington College, the University of Chicago and the Institute of International Education, among other educational posts, found himself a bit surprised by the occasion. What was to have been a midday meal and some exchange of ideas turned into a four-hour debating session. Most of the questions aimed at Heiskell involved the U.S. position in Viet Nam, and in part they reflected the sharp questioning to which the Rhodes students them selves are subjected by their intellectual confreres at Oxford...
Every Sunday after the midday meal, millions of West German parents take to sidewalks, the slopes of nearby hills, or the 75,000 miles of marked paths in the federal republic's tidily tended forests. Side by side, Mercedes and motor bike repose in the parking lot; for a few brief hours, worker and industrialist, Cabinet minister and cabinetmaker are equal and often indistinguishable-clad (as are their wives) in sensible shoes, sturdy capes and shapeless hats. Toddlers are carried. Teen-agers desert friends and transistor radios. The whole family trudges, pausing now and then for a spell...