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Word: midnight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saturday night's tied-score hockey game was the latest victim of the antique ruling.s When the clock had struck twelve, the Cinderella law hustled both teams out of the arena, presumably wary of the myth that coaches turn back into pumpkins. In this way, the hours from Saturday midnight to Sunday noon are kept free from all vice, including overtime in sports events...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Out of the Blue | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

Lukas was preparing to go to bed just after midnight when he smelled smoke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutor, 2 Students Save Third Floor In Winthrop Fire | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...Midnight Ride of Paul Revere displays the strengths as well as the weaknesses of Wood's approach. It pictures a tidy, table-top model rather than the natural world (genre painters have a weakness for making all things resemble still lifes), and lacks every grace save precision. Yet it does tell its story, lightly, clearly and unforgettably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art, Mar. 1, 1954 | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...management also announced that the tlleater's policy will no longer include the traditional Old Howard Friday night midnight show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Howard Will open With 'Modified' Show | 2/16/1954 | See Source »

...shall have to let the P.W.s know their owners don't want them." At midnight, Jan. 22, the Indian guards withdrew from the pro-Communist compound, leaving the P.W.s with a week's supply of food, which the Reds fore-handedly provided for them. Later that week, the Red rigmarole began. The P.W.s skated gracefully upon frozen paddies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Dummies Go Down | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

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