Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Convention Chairman Konrad Adenauer insisted, for history's sake, that the constitution be adopted on that grim anniversary; he managed to have the final vote (53-to-12) taken five minutes before midnight...
...Midnight Mass. As night fell, tension mounted around the moonlit road blocks. From Sherbrooke, 40 miles away, word came that a heavily armed force of Provincial Police was mobilizing. Strikers made more rigid searches of every car coming down the highways. Near midnight, all hands left their posts for midnight Mass at the big stone church of Saint-Aimé, where strikers had prayed daily that they would be granted the union security and a 15?-an-hour wage boost that they had demanded. (Johns-Manville argued that the union-security demand was an attempt to interfere in "managerial policy...
Success has also aroused a desire for "more time for Berle." One friend is skeptical of this reach for leisure: "What Milton would really like would be to have his TV and radio shows, do a midnight turn at a nightclub, have a disc jockey show from noon to 2, spend some time during the week with Dick Rodgers batting out a few tunes. Sandwiched in between, he'd direct and produce a play, stage some revue sketches, be a TV network consultant, be called to Hollywood to star in, co-produce, co-direct, co-write and edit...
That night impressionable Erica went home to her flat and fell into a troubled sleep. At midnight, she awoke to hear her pet cat screaming. Standing in her bathroom, she swore next morning, was a tall figure wearing the polterjacket. As Erica cried out in terror, the figure turned slowly to reveal the hideous face of an old crone. "I stared it away," reported Erica bravely. "It came up and then faded away like a television image...
Meanwhile, the students' wives had called police, who searched the neighborhood for the midnight visitor, but could not find...