Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reentry visa for Communist-controlled Rumania. Rumanian Premier Petru Groza would not see him and so, knowing that Groza fancied himself a tennis player second to no one, Low let it be known that back in the States he himself had been quite a tennist. Around midnight three nights later his telephone rang: the Premier would like to play; his car would be around at 6 o'clock in the morning...
...exset number of tables will be in proportion to the pinball machines that can be squeezed in around the wall space. These will be in addition to cigarette vendors and soda coolers. The whole business will be kept open until midnight, six hours later than the similar emporium located above Leavitt and Peirce...
...About midnight Cirrotta's roommate, Richard A. Wolff, came back from the library and found Cirrotta on his bed complaining that he couldn't sleep. He asked Wolff for a couple of sleeping pills...
...Blame Divided. For four hours-until after midnight-men & women, black & white, asked for more police, better street lighting, more housing. They shrieked derisively at bumbling council attempts to shift responsibility. But not all were ready to saddle the politicians with all the blame. Said the Rev. L. K. Jackson, Negro pastor of St. Paul's Baptist Church: "Even in my own church I was told that you can't fight gambling and prostitution. When I chose to fight the rackets, I was rapped by one of our Negro papers as a 'rabble-rouser.' The cure...
...ponderous date in the story of civilization; it was 173 years ago that the British were forced to evacuate their entrenchments behind what is now known as Scollay Square. Which explains the colorful parades that will appear tonight on that historic spot, and the evacuation of the taverns at midnight that will recall the great exodus of 1776. Thus do true Bostonians demonstrate their deep seated sense of traditional rites and solemn observances...