Word: midday
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Reveille is sounded before daybreak by transistor radios blasting out the morning news. At their irregular meals, the men eat rice or boiled starchy roots, dried codfish or bananas, sometimes boa constrictor or raccoon. They march, often dry and thirsty, through the hot midday. Castro moves along with them, joshing his men, examining their weapons, dressing-down laggards...
Convulsive Hands. The opening of the Assembly was set for midday, but hours passed. The Bolsheviks protested that all their delegates had not arrived-ignoring the fact that many opposition Deputies were still locked in prison or hiding from the police. We waited patiently through all the delays and redelays until, after a new postponement, we voted to open the Assembly at 4 o'clock, whatever happened. What we did not know was that, by then, the Reds were in full control of the city's streets...
...materially than they had been at home. They have a higher daily caloric ration (1,500-1.600) than some of the fellahin in Nasser's Egypt, better health and sanitation services than they had ever known in Palestine. UNRWA provides extra rations for pregnant and nursing women, midday meals and vitamin pills for children. UNRWA's education facilities are making the refugees an intellectual elite among Arabs. Nearly 100% of the male children attend school, almost 25% of the girls (Arab parents have still to be sold on education for daughters). Nearly 400 refugees are studying in universities...
...demanded to be allowed to go outside and see for herself. The result: a compromise. The minister allowed his wife to go outside-but not until five in the evening, when it was still light enough for her to see, but well past the sinfully glaring brilliance of midday...
...midday sun sears her still form, lying quietly in the dust. She is herself a fallen bridge between mankind's sundered parts. For a moment, before the small arms shatter the brief truce, Helga Reinbeck's silence is louder than all the guns...