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Word: noon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...residents' health. Hundreds of hours of testimony were given. Thousands of pages on the subject were compiled. And until last November, the courts and a state environmental agency had sided with Brookline and Mission Hill, requiring further controls and further delays. But between the hours of 2 a.m. and noon on Aug. 24, the final engine went to where Harvard had all along said it belonged...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Three-and-a-Half Years Later, MATEP Gets Its Engines | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...noon siren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Summer's End: Goodbye, Local Peaches | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

Listening to Hun tell you about the day the noon siren went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Summer's End: Goodbye, Local Peaches | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...actors and artists, such effects often demand both time and patience. It took 81 hours, for example, for Christopher Tucker to turn John Hurt into the elephant man. Hurt had to report for work at 4:30 a.m. and, since he was not transformed until noon, often wound up on the set until after midnight. With his misshapen skull and body, which was in fact largely foam rubber, he was unable to lie down or even rest between shots. The tedium can result in tension on location, and there are some actors the artists will not work with. After clashing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Wizards of Goo and Gadgetry | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...Chief Petty Officer David Avery, 38, of the Royal Navy; brisk, authoritative and more than a little wary. Avery baked the official wedding cake to be served up to 120 guests at the Buckingham Palace wedding "breakfast" (noon to 4 p.m.). The recipe, he says, "is all in my head. It isn't written down anywhere, you understand. No, I will not give you a single detail." Avery and an assistant, Training Officer Lieutenant Motley, journeyed to the palace six weeks ago to give the bride-to-be an approving peek at their design. The batter had gone into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magic in the Daylight | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

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