Word: midday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley was hopping mad. Just the day before, midday Loop traffic had been snarled for four hours while 500 civil rights demonstrators marched on city hall and the nearby board of education building to protest a decision to keep School Superintendent Benjamin C. Willis on the job for another 17 months. Daley got Police Superintendent Orlando W. Wilson on the phone, told him: "Nothing like what happened yesterday will exist today." When the demonstrators showed up, cops arrested 252 men, women and children in what may well have been the opening round of a racially...
...Sweden) than in the U.S. They also cling to their own ways, no matter what the efficiency experts say: Germans like their bottle of beer on the job, the French must have their daily liter of wine, and the Spaniards insist on a three-hour siesta at midday. A U.S.-owned factory in Amsterdam barely averted a walkout over how the cafeteria food should be seasoned, and an exasperated U.S. executive in France found that, after one worker complained of a draft, he had to discuss for hours what doors of a warehouse should be opened or closed...
...corps came this way and was destroyed. Don't let it happen to you." They didn't. Though wave upon wave of U.S. fighter-bombers swept in before the attack with bombs and rockets, the weather turned bad for air support when the assault actually began. By midday, the attack force had reached the Viet Cong's main line of resistance-a low mudbank at the far side of open paddyfields affording a clear field of fire to the enemy...
...embarrassed to report that that looks like being the size of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. We shall have to do something about it. I fear I've written far, far too many lyrics." A Bit Far. Still he goes on writing them like a mad dog in the midday sun. He has a coop above Lake Geneva in Switzerland and another pad in Jamaica. The Jamaica setting is apparently perfect for glib, swift masters. The late Ian Fleming, after lolling in Coward's guesthouse for a time, bought his own place near by. "God, I miss him," says Coward...
Just before midday, when France's Giscard d'Estaing signaled approval from his government, the deal was finally closed. Almost overnight, a handful of men had managed to raise $3 bil lion, relying completely on gentlemanly agreements and a structure of confidence built up over many years. The bundle that they produced will enable Britain's central bankers to buy, buy, buy sterling-until the speculators finally get tired of selling. It was a remarkable show of ability and confidence, and it dramatically demonstrated that the world's cool money managers can perform truly heroic feats...