Word: midday
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...looking for violations of the Islamic stricture against alcohol. Shortages of staples are rare; only severe and prolonged shelling interrupts the flow of imported goods. Housewives rush out to do their shopping early in the morning, when an unofficial cease-fire reigns; the shelling usually does not start until midday...
...insult to the tradition of Georgian hospitality." The new rules appear to be having some effect. With police now on the lookout for drunks, plumbers and carpenters seem less ready to insist on vodka as payment "under the table," which is where they often ended up by midday. "Now they're sober all day," says one Muscovite. "But after lunch, they get terribly cranky...
...GSAS student at the rally. Douglas M. Brugge, said the lack of Harvard participation was explained by the concentration on today's midday rally in front of Memorial Church...
...American team starts work each day at 7 a.m. They break in the midday heat for a two-hour C-ration lunch and rest period, then work until 5 p.m. Dinner is C rations again, washed down by military-style "emergency water" in gray soft-drink-size cans. Aside from the routine jungle hazards there is an additional problem: the excavation contains what Army Lieut. Colonel Joseph B. Harvey describes as "a significant amount" of live ammunition. It has been piled inside a display area marked off by yellow ribbons. The team's two ordnance-disposal specialists will dump...
...small park near the auditorium. No camping was allowed, but neither the Heads nor the local police considered all-night snoozing on the park's wooden benches to be camping. (Dead Heads, who are apolitical, do not seem to enrage police as hippies did.) By the time the midday sun had warmed the bones of the park-bench bivouackers, the park had become a street fair. T shirts were on sale, decorated with tie-dyed spiral nebulas, skulls and roses (another important symbol to the Dead, who have more symbols than the Elks or the Masons). So were incense, posters...