Word: midday
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...dirt track under the midday sun, Irrfan Khan waits at the starting line. The 42-year-old actor is playing a poor army recruit from a village in central India who runs just to get the extra ration of food allotted to athletes. At his first race, his character doesn't know what to do when the pistol sounds, so he prays. "You idiot! Run!" the starter screams. That spurs the soldier into action, and the naive confusion on his face turns into determination. Extras from the Bengal Sappers - actual young army recruits who live on the base in Roorkee...
...midday, Collins noticed the phones and electricity were not working. By the time she decided to leave the house, the sky was black. "She had no idea that she was in that much danger. She couldn't see anything," recalls Minten. "She crashed the car into a tree on the way out." Eventually, Collins spotted the faint headlights of another car through the haze and followed it up the windy road to a pub where she, her son and other Flowerdale residents stayed briefly before they were evacuated to Yea, a nearby town. The couple's weatherboard home burnt...
...take my wife and two daughters, along with our two friends from Britain and their two daughters and baby son, to Fish Hoek for a swim just four days before the latest attack? For that matter, why did much of Cape Town? (We didn't arrive until midday, and by then the beach was so full we had to lay out our towels on some concrete steps.) It wasn't that we'd forgotten about the sharks. As we set up our little beach camp, I regaled our guests with a story about the legendary "Sub," a monstrous great white...