Word: midday
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believed in opening a story with a leisurely reflection on the weather and any other aspect of the day's events that struck his fancy. In those years, two rounds were played on the final day of a tournament so Darwin would digest the morning round over a midday meal. Afterwards, he would compose his article while sipping port, always for he did not believe in taking highlights out of sequence. This dignified attitude is transparent in what is considered the most famous line Darwin ever penned. "Then it was time to go to tea," he wrote after watching only...
...labor figure since the 1960s. Bothered by an old hip ailment, he needs a cane to get around. His eyesight is so poor that when he plays golf, he has to have his aides tell him how far it is to the green. But during "the Meany show," the midday press conference that follows each closed-door, morning meeting, the AFL-CIO chiefs humor is as quick and salty as ever...
...midday, Wheat Farmer Clyde Eveleigh stared out his front window near Ulysses, Kans. His yard light, which turns on automatically when the sky darkens, glowed dimly through clouds of gritty dust. "I'm guessing that we got wiped out today," he reported, "but I'm not about to go out into the fields to find out-the air is so black I might get lost." In eastern Colorado, too, gusts of wind up to 90 m.p.h. scooped up the drought-dry topsoil, hurling some five tons of the precious dirt off each acre of land during...
...neatly manicured lawns that surround Irvine-built factories and office buildings, workers toss Frisbees during their lunch hours or nap under the midday California sun. Many of them live within walking distance, in Irvine-designed homes adjacent to golf courses, swimming pools and lakes. Shopping centers and parks, all landscaped by Irvine, are less than ten minutes away. It is an idyllic work-live-play environment, carved out of beanfields and cow pastures south of Los Angeles. Irvine has built on only 10,000 acres, and plans to continue developing its land over the next 25 years with nearly...
...turn may have been coming. Obsessed with features and columnists, Schiff gave increasingly short shrift to news coverage. Her tightfistedness with the Post editorial budget extended to approving all out-of-town trips for reporters. Despite the paper's midday monopoly, circulation and advertising began to dwindle, and the paper has been barely making a profit...