Word: noon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home in Santa Monica when I got the news. I was taking the bus back from an afternoon class at UCLA. Accustomed to hearing news of such fires. I was intermittently daydreaming and listening to the news reports on the Mandeville Canyon fire, which had been raging since noon of the previous day. Suddenly, an account of another blaze came on. The words "Kanan Dume"--a road near us--cut through my reverie. Startled, I waited for elaboration and when none came glanced instinctively up the coast for the telltale black smudge on the horizon, Dark clouds billowed from Mandeville...
...Around noon on Saturday, October 24, a caravan of 50 fire engines wound its way down the coast from San Francisco. But by that time the winds had changed, blowing the fire back on itself. It was the only thing that could have stopped the flames...
...country were hanging in the balance, and I cannot deny that I was eager to resolve this crisis while I was still President in order to justify the decisions I had made. I had a major responsibility and not much time left to carry it out. At noon, I would no longer be President...
That afternoon, as I bade goodbye to my Cabinet, Muskie brought more bad news. Christopher, normally an optimist, was discouraged because the Algerians' sense of urgency seemed to have vanished. We decided that Christopher should inform Benyahia that our authority would expire at noon the next day; his plane should stand by for his departure from Algiers at that time. We hoped this order would impress on the Algerians and the Iranians that there was a deadline: noon, Tuesday, Jan. 20. After that, neither Christopher nor I could speak for the U.S., and the entire negotiations might have...
...from Christopher: "Takeoff is not imminent, but I can state for certain that it will be before noon. Iran asks Algeria not to announce departure until after the planes clear Iranian airspace...