Word: all-night
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Miss Porritt said, however, the budget limitations force the library to close by midnight. She added that a plan is being considered to provide all-night study facilities in the dorms...
...Speedway. They were easy bait for Smitty, who was older, more sophisticated and, as they said admiringly, "different." His foster parents, owners of a nursing home, had given him $300 a month since he was 16, and furnished him with his own cottage, which his mother dutifully cleaned after all-night orgies. "With Smitty," confided one girl, "there was always something going...
...mammoth, 200-in. telescope that towers above him. An elevator hauls him slowly to a cylindrical observer's cage inside the telescope itself, and the dome's curved doors slide open to the cold mountain air. Perched high above the observatory floor, with classical music from an all-night Los Angeles radio station in the background, he checks his instruments, loads a camera and settles down to his lonely vigil...
...became one of the most notorious members of the Sinatra Rat Pack, his eyepatch fixed rakishly, like a pirate's, eager to outdrink, outgamble and outperform any other Clansman. Finally there were the unkindest cuts of all-from the Negro press, resentful of Davis' growing reputation for all-night all-white parties. "Howcum we never see Sammy Davis hangin' on the corner up here?" ran the cartoon in a Harlem paper. "You crazy, man? Sammy ain't colored no more...
Mike had been hooked when Producer Sy Weintraub offered him a seven-year deal that "will make you as rich as a whole backfield." How hard the money was to come by he began to realize as, groggy and red-eyed from an all-night flight, he stepped off the plane at Rio to meet the press and the heat. Both proved overpowering. Expected to exclaim about the charms of the carioca moças, Mike could only grunt about the weather. Next morning the papers smirkingly conjectured, "Maybe Mike Henry doesn't like women." Then, even faithful chimpanzee...