Word: midday
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...court order was implemented, they warned, Israel would experience the trauma of Jew killing Jew. They also threatened that the price tag of an eviction would take the form of random violence against Palestinian innocents. But by catching the diehards in the house unprepared - the raid was launched at midday rather than at night, when the settlers had expected it would come and when there would be hundreds more braced for confrontation inside the disputed building - the Israeli police and military averted the first threat. The eviction went off relatively smoothly, although eight people were slightly injured, one of them...
...didn't sleep much... there was still gunfire and explosions every now and then. By midday on Thursday, there was no internet, and no water. I still had my Blackberry, and all the time it took to answer e-mails kept me busy and emotionally stable. I didn't break down or anything. For some reason, I always knew I'd be fine if I wasn't burnt to death. On the second night there was another fire. There was also a phone call, and I didn't answer as my security agency had warned against it. They said...
...Considering the mixed messages Capitol Hill sent on Thursday, that seemed the only appropriate approach. First, news spread midday that a group of bipartisan lawmakers had reached an agreement to provide Detroit with an infusion of $25 billion, with a victory press conference to be held at 2:30 p.m. Then, abruptly, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate majority leader Harry Reid cut the negotiators off at the pass by holding a hastily called press conference of their own in the same Senate room at 2:00 p.m. At that point, the Democratic leaders announced that they would not bring...
Well, mystery abounds. What's next for the group? Was the point really just to give New Yorkers a chuckle or trick them into thinking for few fleeting minutes that U.S. involvement in Iraq had ended? By midday, the groups posted a video account of the prank, with interviews with readers around New York City. Some reports said the fake-out was nationwide, but the video was shot all in New York, and accounts of the stunt seemed limited to the actual home of the Times. And how does the New York Times feel about being parodied and satirized...
...Republican incumbent Saxby Chambliss had led his Democratic challenger Jim Martin for most of Tuesday night, but saw his lead dwindle in the early hours of Wednesday morning. In Georgia, state election law requires a runoff if neither candidate wins 50% of the vote plus one. By midday Wednesday, Chambliss had 49.9% and Martin had 46.7% according to state election officials. (A third candidate had the remainder of the votes and will not be part of any runoff...