Word: midday
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kleindienst denied their request for use of the grounds at midday yesterday, saying he did not want to prevent tourists from visiting the monument tomorrow...
...heat. A drenching rain ended a two-month drought in Southern California, tying up Los Angeles freeways and delaying drivers as much as two hours. In the bone-dry cattle country of West Texas, winds surpassing 60 m.p.h. turned the sky dark red with dirt at midday last week, a prelude to five inches of rain that interrupted seven months of Dust Bowl drought, perhaps in answer to Cherokee rain dances. But there was no relief for Florida's parched Everglades, where at one point more than 100 men and five helicopters were battling a 50,000-acre fire...
...fire bases and ARVN armored units, whirring over a repaired Route 9 and the beautiful Pone River, which marks the border. After ten or 15 minutes in the air, we hovered down in the middle of an expanse of brushwood alongside Route 9. Several ARVN troopers were having their midday dish of rice under the shade of a tank. One of them gestured at the ground and smiled: 'Laos...
...many economy flights of medium range, American, United and TWA have substituted sandwiches for meals and done away with midday snacks. The cost for an economy-class hot meal ranges up to $3.50; a sandwich and trimmings is well under $3. Quite a few of the lost amenities are barely missed by most passengers. For example, soup is no longer served to first-class passengers on some flights, and stewardesses now ask passengers whether they want cream and sugar with their coffee; many do not. The price of cocktails on Eastern and National has been raised from...
...paramilitary Shield Society that he had formed two years ago. For the first time in weeks, the sky over Tokyo was free of smog. When Mishima and his companions reached Ichigaya Hill in western Tokyo, the headquarters of Japan's Eastern Ground Self-Defense Forces, sunshine bathed the midday. Mishima had arrived on the threshold of his life's climactic act. It was the sort of act, Japanese Literary Critic Kenkichi Yamamoto wrote later, that "reached its apex in one pyrotechnic explosion beyond time and space-one flash in the darkness and nothing else...