Word: noon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fencing vs. Penn. 12 noon...
...track vs. Army, 12 noon...
...salvage yard at Los Alamos is open from noon to 4 p.m. on Thursdays. The regulars start arriving early, staking out their positions at the head of the line, which by noon stretches across the parking lot. When the door opens, they trot forward, gaining speed as they gallop through the warehouse, swerve around the cash register and slide past a World War II-vintage sign of a cutout policeman holding up a warning DO NOT RUN OR PUSH. One by one they pop out into the yard, their shirts and hats festooned with bits of masking tape made into...
Five minutes after noon the scroungers have established territorial piles of gleanings. Inside a dumpster filled with old electronics (40? per lb.), three men are crawling around stripping out switches, relays and diodes. In the steel pile (7? per lb.), a swarm is hauling off a transformer cabinet, a 16-in. pipe and a chunk of plate steel left in fanciful cookie-cutter shapes by a plasma-arc cutter. Two men are momentarily baffled by a machined piece. "I don't know what they could have meant to do with this," says one. "It could have been a detector...
...Cubans clearly had lost favor on the island. When a noon crowd watching the police station in Grenville saw 82nd Airborne officers arrive with Godwin Horsford, a well-known Coard supporter, in their custody, the spectators booed Horsford and shouted, "Cuban! Cuban!" Ermyn Campbell, who lived next door to the Cuban embassy in St. George's, recalled that "the Cubans were darling neighbors, very polite. But the U.S. is the best thing for us now. Things were coming so unstuck that I'm sure we were just snatched in time from the devil's own mouth...