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Word: midnight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Albert Jordan, his former chauffeur, testified that he frequently drove Kenny to the home of a Jersey gangster and gambler named Charlie Yanowski, who was later stabbed to death with an ice pick. Kenny, it developed, also had a deep interest in the waterfront and held a secret midnight meeting last March with moonfaced, heavy-handed Anthony Strollo-prisonbound Joe Adonis' successor in the Jersey rackets. For reasons never explained, Entertainer Phil Regan, an ex-policeman known as the "Singing Cop," furnished them his room in Manhattan's midtown Warwick Hotel for the rendezvous. Mayor Kenny denied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Nine Hundred & Forty Thieves | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

...mine was silent as the miners observed the holidays. But on Christmas Eve, they would troop back to the hillside entrances with their families, and plod 2,600 ft. down into the mountain. There, for the first time, they were to hear Father Luis Posada, mine chaplain, say Midnight Mass in the great underground church, only one of its kind in the world, which the miners carved out of solid salt rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Underground Cathedral | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

Back in Australia, Landy stepped up his training to 40 miles a week (some of it run at midnight after finishing his studies) and varied his jogging routine with plenty of 440-yd. sprints. He also copied Zato-pek's high-arm action and Zatopek's method of running part of a race on his heels rather than on the balls of his feet, a technique designed to rest a distance runner's thigh muscles. But despite his progress (a 4:11 mile this season), it took the most persuasive efforts of his track coach to convince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Four-Minute Mile | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

...Midnight Mass (Wed. midnight, NBC). From Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Dec. 22, 1952 | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

...hours are: Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. until midnight; Saturday, 7 p.m. until midnight; and Sunday, from 2 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. and from 6:30 p.m. until midnight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Buck Announces Hours for '56 in Memorial Church | 12/19/1952 | See Source »

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