Word: midday
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When Lawyer Partridge came home for midday dinner, Bellamy knew he was in for a crossexamination. " 'How was the ice?' asked Father. 'Fine.' 'Why didn't you stay?' 'I-I-I got cold.' 'But it isn't very cold today.' I realized at once that I had given the wrong answer and I began to hedge. ... As he stood there stroking his beard and looking at me I heard the door slam and Herb's voice from down stairs asking where I was. ... I tried to think...
...resemble the 50 destroyers traded to Britain (see cut, p.11), that British destroyers are not apt to be found roaming the ocean alone- they have convoy work to do. But the attack took place at noon. Since destroyers are submarine-killers, a submarine would be loath to attack at midday unless there was fog or storm (common in those waters). If visibility was low the U-boat commander may not have recognized the ship...
...ordered to make an early or sunrise attack at Gettysburg [that day]. But Pendleton's own report, written about 60 days after the battle . . . states that Lee, Longstreet, himself and other officers were riding over the battlefront on the morning of July 2, "soon after sunrise," until "about midday . . . surveying the enemy's position . . . and the best mode of attack...
...troop ate lunch-thick sandwiches packed in paper bags by the cook for the midday halt. A few bought canned stuff from the general store at the roadside, walked back to the cars with the shoulder-hitching, spraddle-legged walk that is proper affectation for cavalrymen even when they are motorized. The General's O.D. sedan whirled around the bend and pulled up alongside the store porch. General Fredendall, a short, lean-flanked infantryman, stopped to chat with newsmen. "A good looking outfit," remarked one of the newsmen. The General's reddened cheeks wrinkled in a grin. "Good...
...week, neighbors began to arrive as usual to get their mail at Uncle Alex's office, found his door locked. Soon a crowd filled the sidewalk-people who wanted Alexander Alexandroff to deposit their money, or register their deeds, or give them his advice for a fee. By midday the crowd was big, and Mike Sawicki, who repairs umbrellas in the same tenement, called the police. They found Alexander Alexandroff in bed in his back room, dead. One of his many cats was crouched at the window...