Word: noon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LECTURE: "Speaking of Music"; Joseph Silverstein, concertmaster of the BSO; Keller Room; Friday at noon...
...play-a-few-games-of-Monopoly-while-you-wait syndrome." During the office's peak hours, it is not uncommon for the operators to receive more calls then they can handle at once, in which case they simply answer the calls in order. The worst crunch comes between noon and two in the afternoon, when the operators take their lunch hours, and on weekends, when the staff is reduced from eight to three. (On football Saturdays, a fourth operator is brought in.) As it happens, these are the very times that most callers have occasion to get to the phone...
Paris fell to the German army on June 14, 1940, and on that day a Nazi band followed by a battalion of foot soldiers circled the Arc de Triomphe and marched down the Champs Elysees to the Place de la Concorde. Each noon, until the city was liberated more than four years later, the same procession took place, and the French were reminded of their great shame...
...former English major is back at school, "doing really heavy course shopping," living on Harvard St., and appreciating the fact that, without the pressure of deadlines, "you can sleep till noon if you like." (He says, though, he probably won't avail himself of that privilege too often.) Under the Nieman program, he may audit as many courses as he likes but need only complete the full workload for one--a requirement he says will only be a problem "if I choose to concentrate in a science course...
...street corner; they were also said to have killed 26 personal envoys of Khomeini in revolutionary courts around the country. In Tabriz, a man exploded a hand grenade strapped to his waist, killing himself, Khomeini Aide Ayatullah Assadollah Madani and at least six others as they participated in noon prayers. At week's end, for the first time since the ouster of President Abolhassan Banisadr, anti-Khomeini demonstrators took to the streets to vent their anger...