Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Climax of the celebration was a midnight Mass in Rio's Municipal Stadium, jammed to nearly double capacity by the biggest turnout Rio could remember, topping even the most popular football game. Later, when a photographer's flashbulb exploded, a man blind for 27 years cried: "I see a light! Thank you, Nossa Senhora de Fatima!" Churchmen did not claim any miracles for the Lady, but others did, fervently. One man who said that the statue could work miracles was challenged by a skeptic. In the argument that followed, the two men drew their knives. The believer...
After his repeat performance at the Waldorf, the President followed his Secret Service convoy to Pennsylvania Station. The presidential train pulled out shortly after midnight, spent part of the night at a quiet siding in New Jersey, pulled into Washington's Union Station at 7:30 a.m. Ike's first White House appointment of the day was scheduled...
...Wallace Conkling gave the benediction and Rabbi Louis Binstock of Temple Sholom asked God's blessing on Bishop Sheil in Hebrew. A check for $131,582 was presented to the bishop for his various funds, and 26 separate awards, each with appropriate words of praise, kept coming until midnight...
...another movie and disrupted the show. Some marched on the railroad station, shoved lustily at a car or two and managed to toot a train whistle before they moved on. Others made loud threats to spring Hammond and Wright, who had been locked up at Borough Hall. Toward midnight, the storm center of the riot swirled through town, blew over every garbage can in sight, then settled on Westminster Choir College a mile away...
...minute past midnight, 26 autos headed out of Los Angeles for Sun Valley in the fourth annual "Mobilgas Economy Run," a three-day trip to determine which U.S. car gets the best gas mileage. General Motors, which has passed up the test in the past, did so again (one dealer entered a Chevrolet on his own hook, but was disqualified when he missed a turn and ran out of gas). Willys did not participate either. But aside from them, every standard make mass-produced in the U.S. was represented...