Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Payments not presented in person at the Harvard Trust Company by 2 p.m., or at Lehman by 5 p.m. must be in the mail by 12 midnight...
With flags, band music and thunderous oratory, Cuba last week celebrated the hundredth anniversary of the birth of José Martí, the island's liberator. A ballet, headed by Cuba-born Alicia Alonso, performed nightly in an outdoor theater; 7,000 torch-bearing paraders marched at midnight; schoolchildren dropped a thousand white flowers at the base of the Marti monument. For a week, Cubans laid aside strong talk about their strong man, General Fulgencio Batista, and gave themselves over to honoring one of Latin America's greatest, though least known, historical figures...
Last week a Red offensive hit the Bootleggers' lines at midnight. One ROK outpost was overrun; Communist raiders poured into the Bootleg trenches. But the 12th stood fast, keeping a steady fire on the Red infantry, bayoneting those who broke through the barrage. At 1:40 a.m. the Communist attack fell apart; 94 North Koreans lay dead in the snow; hundreds more had been wounded. The Bootleggers' losses: 24 killed...
...eighth and last message to Congress on the State of the Union, determined to speak his valedictory in the calm, reasoning voice of the statesman. At 11:15 one night last week-late by Truman standards-he finished going over the fifth draft, left his speechwriters working well past midnight to buff the rough edges...
Shortly after midnight, Mayer returned to the rostrum with firmer assurances for the Gaullists. He promised there would be no division of France's armed forces. He also promised that he would not stake the existence of his government on a vote of confidence on the EDC issue. Both of these pledges were specific and circumscribed: internationalist Rene Mayer had not abandoned internationalism. But he had opened wide the gates for further changes. Voting began at 2:20 a.m., and less than an hour later gruff old Assembly President Edouard Herriot announced the result: 389 for Mayer, 205 against...