Word: goodnights
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...spent the night at Government House, watched the traditional lambeg drummers lambasting their three-foot drums with ferocious, stout-filled glee. Eventually, they gave Elizabeth a headache, and Sir Basil Brooke, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, popped his head outside to ask them to desist. They did, but said goodnight by playfully clouting him with their caps...
...spread out big hands. "Look, this way, how long will it go on? It could be years. But how long can we go on? Night after night, you lock the doors, and see to the guns, and kiss your wife and kids goodnight, and wonder if you'll see one another alive in the morning. We have no protection, except ourselves. And don't forget, most of us are out on commando duty. Some of us can't farm any more. So you go out a week or two weeks into the mountains, and you leave...
Last Blow. As Harry came to the end of his speech, Bess and Margaret came to his side. Solemnly they faced the TV cameras while he said: "And now the time has come for me to say goodnight and-God bless...
...well cut away from him to do a one-minute, high-level, institutional commercial. There will be no commercial in the middle of the show and just a little direct sell at the end. When the last commercial is over, the bishop will come back for his goodnight...
...pain, unpleasantness and nastiness, I have a sweet secret . . ." By her 15th birthday she had fallen in love with Peter van Daan. In the evenings she would visit him in his tiny attic, and the two adolescents would talk for hours, hold hands and occasionally kiss goodnight. Anne was not sure how to behave ("I am so longing for a kiss, the kiss that is so long in coming"), and was relieved when her father counseled restraint; In the last entries of her diary, amid careful reports of what the fugitives ate and striking sketches of how they lived, there...