Word: midday
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Living Torch. At the height of the midday shopping hour, Catherine Seydel, a 22-year-old student, picked out a dress she liked and entered a third-floor booth to try it on. Suddenly she heard a thunderous rumble on the floor above her. When she emerged from the booth, she entered a maelstrom of fear and panic. In rapid succession, flames had erupted in at least three locations around the store. Two of the store's 15 full-time firemen-the building had no sprinklers-tried to douse the flames with hand extinguishers, but retreated in the fast...
...very, very intelligent caliber of boys," he said-and very, very early risers too. Aboard the aircraft carrier Bon Homme Richard, he wailed, "they told me my first show would be at 8 a.m. Eight in the morning! A singer like me doesn't even spit before midday...
...that was unlike any ever before seen by man. Instead of being blotted out by the moon-as it is during solar eclipses seen on earth-the sun was temporarily hidden behind the earth. During the two hours that Surveyor was in the shadow cast by the eclipse, lunar midday temperatures plummeted from...
...days, the air was so black that Londoners could see no more than a yard ahead. Drivers were forced to leave cars and buses to peer closely at street signs to find out where they were. Policemen strapped on respiratory masks. The Manchester Guardian reported that London's midday sun "hung sulkily in the dirty sky with no more radiance than an unlit Chinese lantern...
...before DeSalvo was arrested again. On Nov. 3, 1964, he was taken into custody by Cambridge police who identified him as the "Green Man" (he wore green work pants) who had been raping women in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. On one day, between 9 a.m. and midday, he had assaulted four women in four towns. Indeed, DeSalvo told police, he had sexually assaulted perhaps 1,000 women in recent years -possibly 2,000, counting rapes in Germany, where he had been a G.I. in the occupation forces for five years...