Word: noon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even Ronald Reagan, at ease with the implausibilities of fictive film, would have rejected the script as beyond belief. At the approach of high noon, the hero strides to the podium. Gently, the sun tries to break through an overcast sky. With a resounding "So help me God!" he pledges to uphold the Constitution, and then calls for an "era of national renewal." He leaves the platform, with the U.S. Marine Band playing Hail to the Chief, and minutes later a plane half a world away finally lifts off from a Tehran runway, thus ending an ordeal that has sapped...
Meanwhile, Navy Captain Gary Sick, the Iran expert on the National Security Council, kept two phone lines open; one was to Christopher in Algiers, the other to Carter. If there was no word of takeoff by noon, Carter had joked to the officer, "Captain Sick will be Lieut, (jg) Sick...
Ronald Reagan was to assume that awesome responsibility at noon Tuesday, in the midst of the most lavish festivities ever to surround a presidential Inauguration. They officially got under way Saturday night with a fireworks show at the Lincoln Memorial, followed by this week's succession of parties and balls. But that was only the televised surface. Reagan's own final preparations for his new post were both more personal and more businesslike: an emotional farewell to California, where he had risen from obscurity to show-biz celebrity and political power, and the final drafting in Washington...
Duran had to slim down for his rematch with Leonard. After the weigh-in at noon on the day of the fight, Duran gulped some bouillon, then went out for a steak and French fries. Later in the afternoon, he was still intensely hungry, and though his physician advised against it, he ate another steak dinner. The sudden feast after weeks of dieting may have led to the cramps. Said Dr. Nunez: "Roberto wasn't beaten by Sugar Ray Leonard. He was beaten by two sirloin steaks...
...board had refused to grant a suplemental budget requested by T directors, and the legislature refused to provide state funds, so King took control of the system. But under the court order, the T must find additional funding from either local communities or the legislature by Friday at noon or close untill January 1, when new appropriations go into effect...