Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thick steel first floor doors inscribed "Admissions Committee" were open during the day for the first time in two months. Inside, windows were raised, airing out the room. There was little indication that the committee had been working with its staff of secretaries right up to the midnight deadline to get more than 3,600 acceptance and rejection slips into the mail...
...directions, battalion by battalion. They had rehearsed their attack for days against replicas of the French strongpoints. Each Red packed unusual firepower: belts of high-explosive containers, a submachine gun, a dozen grenades, a rifle or pistol, and a long-bladed knife. This time there was no screaming. After midnight the Reds stormed three outposts, and General de Castries' tired men could not get them back. The Reds dug in less than 600 yards from the French command post. Successively in French, Vietnamese, Arabic and German, Red loudspeakers blared: "Surrender...
...stood on the bridge at midnight...
...Midnight Talk. After more than two hours of glum consultation, the three separated. Dulles went off to see Premier Laniel, who formally asked him for help from U.S. air forces. Eden flew back to London, drove directly to Prime Minister Churchill's country home Chequers for a midnight talk. Next morning Churchill called Britain's top military men to an emergency Cabinet meeting-the first time the Cabinet has been summoned on a Sunday in nearly seven years. The Cabinet made the reluctant decision that they could not send either troops or planes to help the harassed French...
Students can still check out reserve books at 9:00 p.m., but desk three, where closed reserve books are housed, will stay open until midnight. The only facilities that Lamont will close at 9:00 p.m. are the Woodberry Poetry Room and the reference room service desk. Although the library will open each of the five Sundays in the reading and exam period, reserve books which are checked out Saturday afternoons will continue to be due Monday morning...