Word: midday
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...hampers of dirty clothes to cope with. After her husband left for the 8:34, she put on Music for Washing and Ironing, and the suave purring of the Somerset Strings, boosted real high, drowned out the snarl of the washer. When it was time for a midday snack, she returned to the built-in record cabinet and selected Music for Gracious Living and Music for Expectant Mothers (her second child was on the way). Late in the afternoon it clouded over, and she barely had time to slip on Music for a Rainy Night before her husband came home...
...midday almost the entire Mamatola tribe were squatting stubbornly on their hillside, refusing to climb aboard the government trucks; Verwoerd's officials stood helplessly by wondering what to do next. At one point, the bemused old tribal chieftain reached out his hand to accept the $75 offered him as compensation for his land, but a crowd of Mamatola women screamed "Coward!" at him. The chief returned the money and sat down moodily on a kitchen chair on the mountainside. When at last the sun dipped down behind the mountains, there was nothing the government men could do but climb...
Like a thousand other villages in Italy's Mezzogiorno (midday, i.e., the south), Castelpoto (pop. 2,800) was bone-poor and bright Red. A medieval huddle of stone houses high in the Neapolitan Apennines, it had no sewage system, no running water, no schoolhouse, no movie, and almost no electricity. On chilly winter evenings peasant women lit bundles of twigs on their mud floors to warm their chimneyless, smoke-blackened houses. When party organizers moved in after the war, Communism took Castelpoto with a rush-even to the local branch of Catholic Action, whose leader, Costanzo Savoia, became mayor...
Tuesday at midday, eight days after the Middle East war began, U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold announced that Britain and France had agreed to a ceasefire. The gunfire might cease, but the unpleasant aftermath would be with the world for a long time...
...followed Corot's advice always to paint out of doors. Pissarro made no effort to turn the young peasant woman into a monumental symbol, but accepted her as part of the landscape. His real joy, as his broad brush strokes show, was in catching on the spot the midday heat and glitter...