Word: midday
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...began at midday near the Ambassador Hotel just off ancient Wenceslas Square. Two foreign students-one from Africa and another from the Middle East -were out for a stroll when they were attacked by a gang of 300 Czechs who pummeled them with fists and bunches of keys while police stood idly by. That evening another group of young Czechs began swinging at an African walking with his Czech wife, then picked a fight with two more Africans who had been arguing with some Cubans. This time police broke up the brawls, but not before a fourth incident occurred...
...much as they can out of the short day, the long drive and the considerable expense. But spring geländesprungers tend to take it easy, swinging onto the tows as the sun crosses the yardarm, basking in the long sun after lunch. Their siestas are prolonged because the midday snow is apt to be mushy, because spring snow is harder to ski, and because fewer skiers and longer hours mean more skiing and more fatigue. At Mammoth Mountain, this may lead to an added pleasure. Skiers tuck wine bottles under their arms, trek ten miles down the valley...
...apartment buildings. "They are sealed in their apartments," says Dr. Paul Noren, the Augustana Lutheran pastor who is president of the Denver Area Council of Churches, "but they are a responsibility of the church." To reach these hidden Christians, many Denver churches play down Sunday worship in favor of midday services during the week...
...this afternoon, and my suit is going to be soggy and wet on that long plane ride back to Washington tonight." The folks returned to hear more. In a speech on Labor Day, he was at his evocative best. The morning rain, he whispered, had given way to the midday sunshine and the evening starlight because-well, because Fortune smiled on him and on the people of Illinois, and besides it was-the voice rose beatifically -Labor Day in America...
Wearing a fashionable black Chesterfield overcoat, the tall, polished Dobrynin stepped off the midday express from New York with his attractive brunette wife Irina Nikolaevna at his side. Russian embassy staffers showered him with roses, thrust out carnations. Dobrynin lost no time in dispensing his own roses. Smiling graciously and speaking in slightly accented English, he quoted Thomas Jefferson on the "remarkable similarity" between Americans and Russians, extended "the friendly greetings of my people." Then he climbed into a black Zil limousine and sped off to the Soviet embassy...