Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midnight the meeting broke up. "Agreement is near," yawned a sleepy French official. Mendès had only 24 hours left to make good on his pledge to get peace or resign...
...Midnight-Mendès' deadline-came and went. At 2 a.m., the Communists, who plainly wanted their cease-fire badly, gave in to Cambodia's obdurate Tep Phan. Changes in the texts were ordered, to allow Cambodia to call for outside help if it considered its security threatened. Tep Phan was gratified, but he had one more question. Who would pay for the truce operations? Said Molotov with a laugh: "You have won everything else-you at least ought to foot the bill...
...Tenderly sprinkled with suave dissonances, the modernist crowd was ready to call it the high point of the festival. But the younger set shrieked louder when hollow-cheeked Gerry Mulligan bellowed and coaxed The Lady Is a Tramp through his big baritone sax. The concert finally ended after midnight with a 20-man jam session that sent the strangest sounds ever heard in Newport floating up to the stars...
...grimy cottage to find a young Italian woman about to have her first child. She was screaming with pain; worse, her husband's nerves had cracked. Brandishing a pistol, he locked the door, announced that he would kill the doctors unless the baby was delivered safely by midnight. Wasting no time in argument, the team got on with the job and delivered twin boys well before the deadline. Looking from the bed, the doctor found that the father had fainted...
...performer of the last and final farewell . . . There is nothing more joyful than lying concealed underneath the pew at your own funeral service-safe in the knowledge that the coffin lid can be easily unscrewed from below and that willing and faithful hands will be at the cemetery at midnight to welcome back the jaunty corpse...