Word: midday
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...corps came this way and was destroyed. Don't let it happen to you." They didn't. Though wave upon wave of U.S. fighter-bombers swept in before the attack with bombs and rockets, the weather turned bad for air support when the assault actually began. By midday, the attack force had reached the Viet Cong's main line of resistance-a low mudbank at the far side of open paddyfields affording a clear field of fire to the enemy...
...embarrassed to report that that looks like being the size of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. We shall have to do something about it. I fear I've written far, far too many lyrics." A Bit Far. Still he goes on writing them like a mad dog in the midday sun. He has a coop above Lake Geneva in Switzerland and another pad in Jamaica. The Jamaica setting is apparently perfect for glib, swift masters. The late Ian Fleming, after lolling in Coward's guesthouse for a time, bought his own place near by. "God, I miss him," says Coward...
Just before midday, when France's Giscard d'Estaing signaled approval from his government, the deal was finally closed. Almost overnight, a handful of men had managed to raise $3 bil lion, relying completely on gentlemanly agreements and a structure of confidence built up over many years. The bundle that they produced will enable Britain's central bankers to buy, buy, buy sterling-until the speculators finally get tired of selling. It was a remarkable show of ability and confidence, and it dramatically demonstrated that the world's cool money managers can perform truly heroic feats...
...make a Sunday sermon attractive is to deliver it on Wednesday. In big cities, midday in midweek finds thousands of office workers hungering in the spirit as much as in the body. The foremost respondent to this need is St. Stephen's Presbyterian Church in downtown Sydney, Australia, filled every Wednesday noon to its 1,000-seat capacity, while an overflow crowd of 300 or more watches from an adjoining hall on closed-circuit television. All have come to hear the "Wednesday tonics" of the Rev. Gordon Powell...
...cargo of goatskins from Turkey eleven months ago, the chief decided enough was enough, set out to nail Cesari once and for all. He disguised a score of Marseille cops as everything from priests and petanque players to taxi drivers and dockers, often had them make quick changes at midday while they shadowed Cesari and his henchmen. Several times they discovered raw morphine on incoming freighters ticketed to Cesari's hirelings (one shipment was packed in a carton of snails). But the police were unable to catch Cesari manufacturing heroin-until a laborer named Albert Veran laid...