In some areas in the United States, civil defense sirens may sound in the late morning and early afternoon on a regular basis.

On the afternoon of February 14, 1941, 100 of the area's leading citizens banded together to organize an association to secure defense industries.

He was confident that his forces could hold Huế, but was then astounded by a late afternoon message from Thiệu that ordered " that because of inability to simultaneously defend all three enclaves, the I Corps commander was free ... to redeploy his forces for the defense of Đà Nẵng only.

Late in the afternoon, the ARVN 8th Airborne Battalion was dropped onto the battlefield and in a scene that characterized much of the day's fighting ; the paratroopers were pinned down and could not break the NLF's line of defense.

In the afternoon, defense attorney Henderson Hill probed her again and again until she finally lost her cool during a testy exchange.

By three in the afternoon, the British had reached a ravine known as Stockton Hollow, about a half a mile ( 0. 8 km ) from Trenton where the Americans were forming another line of defense.

On April 5, 1925, Pierpont and Skeer were taken into city court in Kokomo, where Howard County prosecutor Homer Miller announced to City Judge Joe Cripe that by agreement between himself and the attorneys for the prisoners, the preliminary hearing might be set for Thursday ( April 9 ) afternoon, and the judge agreed.

The court earned the nickname among attorneys practicing there in the 1960s, who told stories of Bryan ruling on the spot when motions were argued, and trying entire cases in one afternoon.

It all began on an autumn afternoon -- and who, after all these centuries, can describe the fineness of an autumn day??

Beginning in 1958, the Canadian government began to orchestrate Dominion Day celebrations, usually consisting of Trooping the Colour ceremonies on Parliament Hill in the afternoon and evening, followed by a mass band concert and fireworks display.

Some time in the afternoon of May 25, a cloud of black smoke rose into the air and the ground began to rumble.

The ecstasy and sufferings usually began for the Saints who suffered stigmata starting on Thursday and ending on Friday afternoon around 3 or 4 o ' clock.

With the rising popularity of television news, the business of UPI began to decline as the circulation of afternoon newspapers, its chief client category, began to fall.

In 1689 his health, never very strong, began to fail seriously and he gradually withdrew from his public engagements, ceasing his communications to the Royal Society, and advertising his desire to be excused from receiving guests, " unless upon occasions very extraordinary ", on Tuesday and Friday forenoon, and Wednesday and Saturday afternoon.

After a pause for refreshment in the 90 ° heat, an afternoon session began with Stanton and then Mott addressing the audience.

Late in the afternoon of 14 July 1969, concerted military action began.

I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with " Beat "... the vision of the word Beat as being to mean beatific ... People began to call themselves beatniks, beats, jazzniks, bopniks, bugniks and finally I was called the " avatar " of all this.

In Western Europe the fashionable hour for dinner began to be incrementally postponed during the 18th century, to two and three in the afternoon, until at the time of the First French Empire an English traveller to Paris remarked upon the " abominable habit of dining as late as seven in the evening ".

German attack began on September 6 in the afternoon, and the Wehrmacht entered the city on the next day in the morning.

In December 1996, Price began airing regularly on the schedule, with half-hour Barker shows in the morning and hour-long episodes in the afternoon and evening, Kennedy shows in late-night, and the Cullen version as part of what was then billed as " Sentimental Sunday ".

In 1984, Hanna-Barbera began producing new episodes specifically for syndication ; by September 1985, the 24 episodes from the first season were combined with 41 new episodes and began airing in late afternoon time slots in 80 U. S. media markets, including the 30 largest.

Around 12: 30 pm, the battle began in earnest, with both sides firing broadsides and cannonades at each other, and continued all afternoon.

The fighting began the afternoon of the next day, June 22.

This incident was chronicled in a derisive poem, based on the Longfellow poem " Paul Revere's Ride ;" it began with the line, " Come gather round children and hold your applause for the afternoon ride of Charlie Dawes.

Unbeknownst to Beauregard, Buell's Army of the Ohio began arriving that afternoon, and he and Grant launched a massive counterattack on April 7.

When he began his afternoon program in September, management closely monitored Stern, telling him to avoid talk of a sexual and religious nature.

On the afternoon of May 30, 1889, following a quiet Memorial Day ceremony and a parade, it began raining in the valley.

The crisis began on the afternoon of May 12, 1975, as the American container ship SS Mayaguez passed near Poulo Wai island en route to Sattahip, Thailand in recognized international sea lanes claimed as territorial waters by Cambodia.

That afternoon, the units of Aragon began to focus on the term called Traslapuente ( across the Ebro where stood the army of Brown ), but did not cross the bridge, camped there, they had orders not to cross it ...

The Duchess found taking an afternoon snack to be such a perfect refreshment that she soon began inviting her friends to join her.

In 1994, Pres A was refurbished and became the regular home for all Children's BBC presentation including the weekday afternoon block ; the presenters no longer had to operate the broadcast equipment, although a broom cupboard-style area in the corner of Pres A contained its own mixer was used for the birthday slot and weekend mornings to save on crew, and the larger set allowed for more dynamic presentation, with more presenters, characters, features, games and guests.

Word that the disturbances had meant the end of the festival, following the Sunday afternoon blues presentation headlined by Muddy Waters, reached poet Langston Hughes, who was in a meeting on the festival grounds.

Mrs. Hooker had spent the afternoon copying out extracts from the handwritten documents Darwin had sent with his letter of the previous night, presumably chosen by Hooker to suit the verbal presentation, and Lyell and Hooker wrote a short introductory letter.

The meeting includes the largest presentation of peer-reviewed technical papers about plastics in the world, with usually over 700 submissions in sessions running all day from Monday thru Wednesday afternoon.

We also worked out logistics for Sunday afternoon swimmers who arrive two hours early with their weekend guests while we are still enjoying an alfresco lunch en famille.

Lizzie stated during the inquest that while her father and uncle were in the sitting room the afternoon before the murders, she had been disturbed by their voices and had closed her door, even though it was a very hot day.

Radio broadcasts, however -- now that even plain people could afford `` loud speakers '' on their sets -- held old fans to the major-league races and attracted new ones, chiefly women, who through what the philosopher called the ineluctable modality of audition, became first inured, then attracted, then addicted to the long afternoon recitals of the doings in some distant baseball park.

If the Orioles are to break their losing streak within the next two days, it will have to be at the expense of the American League champion New York Yankees, who come in here tomorrow for a night game and a single test Sunday afternoon.

`` All we have left in the world is one another, and we must stay together the way Mother wanted '', Kowalski said in telling his children of their mother's death yesterday afternoon.

At the " Wailing Wall " in the Old City of Jerusalem, " the Jews assemble every Friday afternoon to bewail the downfall of the holy city, kissing the stone wall and watering it with their tears.

He met the deadline only after being locked in a room by Brinnin's assistant, Liz Reitell, and was still editing the script on the afternoon of the performance, its last lines were handed to the actors as they were putting on their make-up.

With the help of the armour and artillery, the Indians were able to take their objectives by early afternoon.

Until 2004, the Jaguars would always wear their white jerseys for afternoon games at home during the first half of the season.

Until 2004 ( in 2005 – 2007 the Jaguars went back to wearing white at home for early season games ) and then 2008, the Jaguars would always wear their white jerseys for afternoon games at home during the first half of the season.

Several ' professional amateurs ' were being paid for their sampling trips and microscopic explorations by philanthropists, to keep them amused on the Sunday afternoon ( e. g., the diatom specialist A. Grunow, being paid by ( among others ) a Belgian industrialist ).

As their stories went, in the early afternoon of October 20, Patterson and Gimlin were at Bluff Creek.

The Dolphins wear white jerseys at home typically for day games, but due to a ( since changed ) uniform policy, the Dolphins were obligated to wear their aqua jerseys as the designated home team, although Miami wore its aqua jerseys for its final regular season home game ( on a Saturday afternoon ) that season vs. the Detroit Lions.

These stations typically produce their own local morning and afternoon programs and regional noon hour programs to go along with the network programming that is aired during the rest of the day.

* To All Who These Presents Shall Come, Greeting: Know Ye, that in consequence of propositions of peace, or cessation of hostilities, being submitted to me, as Commandant of the California Battalion of the United States forces, which have so far been acceded to by me as to cause me to appoint a board of commissioners to confer with a similar board appointed by the Californians, and it requiring a little time to close the negotiations ; it is agreed upon and ordered by me that an entire cessation of hostilities shall take place until to-morrow afternoon ( January 13 ), and that the said Californians be permitted to bring in their wounded to the mission of San Fernando, where, also, if they choose, they can move their camp to facilitate said negotiations.

Mail picked up at post offices is sent to their own SCF in the afternoon, where the mail is sorted overnight.

In the afternoon the junior rikishi will again usually have cleaning or other chores to do, while their sekitori counterparts may relax, or deal with work issues related to their fan clubs.

After checking the finances of The Savoy, Mariea and Moe would go for their afternoon

Mariea told me all about their interesting afternoon rides.

At the Battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836, Houston surprised Santa Anna and the Mexican forces during their afternoon " siesta.

It was early afternoon by the time Ike and Tom had seen doctors for their head wounds.

In the afternoon the crew again inspected the capsule and were given their final instructions by Korolev.