Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night last week, a few minutes before midnight, the Reds blew their bugles. Then they attacked, driving thick-packed herds of water buffalo before them, to clear paths through the mines and punch holes in the wire. The French put down a dense curtain of fire from light and heavy weapons, including 105-mm. howitzers; leaping, screaming, the Reds answered with machine guns, mortars, bazookas, recoilless rifles. Bearcats and B-26s from Hanoi arrived to light the horrid scene with flares, to strafe the swarming guerrillas and sear them with napalm...
...know whether to baby-sit with you Christmas eve or go to Midnight Mass with mama and papa." The twelve-year-old girl was taking her little sister to see Santa Claus in his fall home, Jordan Marsh's fifth floor. "I guess I'll stay home with you, and when everybody goes to church, we can Christmas hunt for our presents. We won't have to wait until morning...
Pressure to keep Lamont Library open seven days a week and until midnight on weekdays increased yesterday as the Student Council voted to support 500 freshman petitioners in their plea to Lamont's director, Philip J. McNiff...
...Arguments about such havens have been going on for a long time. Just before President John Adams was succeeded by Thomas Jefferson in 1801, Adams appointed 16 new federal judges. Partisans of Jefferson called them the "midnight judges," claimed that Adams was merely providing lifetime jobs for political friends who would be thrown out by the new Administration. Most of them were; Jefferson's Congress legislated them out of office...
Reading, says Mrs. Ethridge, is a hazard for the wife. "Mark and I room together . . . There I will be in the bed beside him, weary unto death, dying for sleep, and Mark will be flipping the pages of [magazines] . . . right in my face, until long past midnight. [Next morning] I am waked by him slamming the front door with all his might, trooping up the stairs, tearing the wrapper from around the [morning] paper and squashing it into a ball, then hopping back into the bed to rattle and to read until sunup. Of course, I'm wide awake...