Word: midday
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said 'No, send them along, like all the others.' I said that at least I would keep our car in front of the school, just in case. He agreed, but advised me not to bother till noon. I knew then that the war would break out around midday...
Once again, those Puerto Rican bombs. Three exploded in New York City one day last week, touching off fires in two stores and terrifying midday strollers outside Manhattan's main library. There were no casualties, but a letter calling for a "war of nerves" against "Yanki-imperialism" that was found in a phone booth made it clear that the lack of bloodshed was only luck: the Puerto Rican terrorists who call themselves the F.A.L.N. had struck again...
Coming back to New York for this assignment, Skow found that the leisurely lunches he remembered had been replaced by running lunches. After finishing his story, Skow joined some TIME staffers who spend their midday jogging in nearby Central Park. Maps Researcher Nancy Griffin charts the course. Reporter-Researcher Georgia Harbison, who interviewed joggers for this piece, is also part of the noon platoon. What makes Harbison run? Says she: "It's part masochism, part hedonism and part narcissism. Running hurts; but after you run, you feel good and so you look good...
...scene is vividly set-the metallic glare of the sun, the midday lulls during which the air sings with insects. The French merchants and their wives connive and squabble among themselves, fighting off the boredom and psychic impotence that come with their isolation. Missionary priests browbeat the natives for wood carvings, then ship the choicest home to be sold and burn the rest as being in "bad taste...
...agents are often outwitted. Farmers on the U.S. side of the river sometimes put out empty boxes at sunset. Mexicans swim the river at night, pick okra in the early morning when it is fresh, then swim back home. The farmer returns at midday and, lo, his boxes are full. A Mexican labor manager, who hires the workers, arrives later in the day for his pay. Says Lomblot: "The farmer gets cheap labor, the Mexicans keep from starving, and everybody's happy but the border patrol...