Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midnight last week, squads of red-capped MPs and Egyptian security troops poured from their posts throughout the land, arrested 450 leaders of the nationalist-terrorist Moslem Brotherhood, sealed most of its 2,000 headquarters with red wax and confiscated its property worth $8,500,000. Egypt's new revolutionary regime had at last found the decision and strength to break the fanatic group it once found necessary to appease. Said a communiqué: "The Revolution will not allow a recurrence of the reactionary tragedy in the name of religion." A quarter century ago, an intense young theology graduate...
Students level only two main criticisms at the service. One concerns the hours, the other the availability of reserve books just before exams and papers. McNiff feels that both are unjustified. Although Princeton's new Firestone library for undergraduates remains open until midnight on weekdays, McNiff thinks that Lamont's hours are long enough. He also points out that most House libraries are open for studying until after 10 p.m. If students find it impossible to work in their rooms. As for reserve books, an average of one copy for every ten students is kept on hand for long-term...
...whole population for miles around, peasants, coolies, children, women with babies, old people, everyone who could walk. It was raining. They worked with straw baskets, shovels, picks, bare hands. They were like ants. After dark they worked ,by torchlight, singing a strange, monotonous chant like a dirge. At midnight, we saw the lights of the first trucks coming through...
...fire of undetermined origin broke out in Weld South shortly past midnight last night...
September: The Student Council and the CRIMSON will ask Housemasters for one a.m. parietal rules on Saturday nights. After considerable discussion, the Housemasters will announce that they have granted room permissions from midnight to one a.m., but taken away the hours from eight to twelve...