Word: midday
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bunch, mostly from Canada's maritime provinces. They make $4.60 to $7 an hour, spending two weeks on the barge followed by one week off. Nearly every aspect of oil-rig life is designed to speed the race for oil, from plentiful food (four steaks for some at midday dinner) to strictly enforced rules (no booze on board...
Nixon ordered the military alert early Thursday morning as a precautionary measure, Kissinger told a news conference at midday. The Secretary of State said that American officials had noticed an "ambiguity in some of the actions and statements" of the Soviets...
...hypnotic harmony of their voices all shouting in an unknown language. Sitting outside a Hindu Temple he finds a senile old man who says with wonderful pride that he works there as a "holy water carrier." He sees two Muslim men, their bodies blackened with soot, dancing at midday on a deserted street of a small village. Driving along a highway he stops to film vultures stripping a dead water buffalo of its flesh, burrowing into its eyes and mouth. His images of vitality alternately excite and disgust...
...major casually explained all this while standing on the front porch of the ICCS headquarters in Tri Ton. Inside the broken-down building, the two-man teams busied themselves with a variety of midday tasks: sleeping, reading and showing a visitor around...
When it finally arrived, the day that the G.I.s called X-plus-60 was hot and mildly anticlimactic. On the withdrawal deadline two months after the Paris truce signing, the U.S. military command in Viet Nam was closed down in a simple midday ceremony in a parking lot near Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airbase. No U.S. military band was available for the occasion. Loudspeakers blared out a recording of The Star-Spangled Banner, and a color guard rolled up the blue flag of the command under which 2,500,000 American G.I.s had served since 1962. Ellsworth Bunker...