Word: midafternoon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simply had to drop an unmarked ballot into the box. But if he wanted to vote "No," he had to make a cross on the ballot. Thus only "No" voters had any reason to walk into the booths; the names of those who did could be carefully noted. By midafternoon, on election day, eligible voters who had not appeared at the polls found typewritten notes under their doors: "Dear voting citizen: We have established that you have not voted by 2 p.m. We request you to carry out your patriotic duty by 8 p.m. Sincerely, 'People's Front...
...midafternoon, with five Secret Servicemen as companions, he slipped away to a hideaway in a hotel at Excelsior Springs, 22 miles north of Kansas City. There he had a mineral bath, a rubdown, a sandwich and a glass of buttermilk. By 7 o'clock he was in bed. His aides, who were established in the eleventh-floor penthouse suite of Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel, were gloomy; they had felt all along that election night would be like a wake. Harry Truman woke up several times during the night and telephoned to the Muehlebach. At about...
...Royal Mile. On opening day, the clear, crisp morning air throbbed with the wail of bagpipers from the grounds of Edinburgh Castle. By midafternoon, spectators had jammed the "Royal Mile" between Holyrood Palace and Edinburgh Castle to watch the ceremonial parade to dour St. Giles's Cathedral, led by the Lord Lyon King of Arms, in heraldic tabard, looking as if he had stepped off a playing card. In the cavernous cathedral, with a blast of trumpets, the festival was formally opened-a festival that would hear, before it was over, some 1,500 musicians, including seven orchestras, four...
...official courtesy call on the commanding officer of a new post, he always saw to it that the officer was out at the time. Later, as a roving representative of the Inspector General's office, he always arranged his schedule to arrive at a new command in midafternoon, so that the commanding officer could look him over and decide whether to invite him to dinner. "I was always the only colored officer at my post," he recalled. "But it made no difference to me. Nobody paid any attention, and at every post I managed to make friends with somebody...
...Behind him the sky paled, silhouetting his stocky figure. Haganah Bren guns riveted bullets in a straight line across his body. Abdul Kader fell dead. As news of the battle reached Jerusalem, Arab reinforcements streamed out to Kastel in armored cars, trucks and battered U.S.-made taxis. By midafternoon, 2,000 strong, they occupied the village...