Word: noon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After participating in a noon anti-Reagan rally, the protesters occupied the building and drew up a list of 24 demands, including terminating the campus ROTC program, stopping university research on nuclear weapons, and increasing university support for campus child care...
...midterm time, and you say you don't have time to read the sports page because you've got a Gov 20 exam at noon. Just for a minute, though, forget about those last 200 unread pages of "The Civic Culture"--it won't be on the test anyway--and read this column. It's a test too, and it may help get you into the mood...
...landscape; still less did he rise to Turner's heights of sublimity or audacity of color. But both painters admired him. "Soothing, tender and affecting," Constable called Gainsborough's landscapes. "His object was to deliver a fine sentiment, and he has fully accomplished it ... The stillness of noon, the depths of twilight, and the dews and pearls of the morning, are all to be found on the | canvases of this most benevolent and kindhearted man. On looking at them, we find tears in our eyes, and know not what brings them...
Knowing the voracious appetite of a cross country team that has just finished a major meet, it is possible the harriers found a cozy, nubby little restaurant in cozy, nubby little Princeton, N.J. and won't be back until noon today. On the other hand, the harriers could have gone for maximum speed at minimum expense (a cross country hallmark) and opted for McDonalds. Now I don't know how Princeton McDonalds rate with those of New England, but a certain McDonalds located twenty miles outside of Bowdoin, Me., will never forget the Harvard Women's tennis team...
That serene facade was shattered moments later. At precisely 12 noon, the windowpanes in the Shatt al Arab Hotel were blasted by a concussive boom. As explosion after explosion followed, everyone in the lobby dived to the floor or huddled next to pillars for protection from the surprise raid by two Iranian Phantoms skimming 100 yds. above the port. In less than a minute it was over. We poured outside and crossed a rickety wooden bridge to view the damage: just 300 yds. away on Sinbad Island, bright orange flames and thick black smoke curled from a coastal dredging vessel...