Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly after midnight on June 30, a couple of young sailors from H.M.S. Belfast, on shore leave in Kobe, grabbed a Japanese cabby by the neck, robbed him of $5 and adjourned to a bar. They were caught, drinks in hand, and last week each was sentenced to 2½ years at hard labor. It was the first sentence pronounced on foreigners since Japan regained her independence last April. The judge was careful to point out that the British tars got only half the minimum prescribed by Japanese law for assault and robbery...
Except for a few peasant farmers and tourists, the foothills of the Maritime Alps north of Marseille are deserted and desolate. It is not country to be stumbling about in at night. So when 32-year-old Gustave Dominici, whose farmhouse overlooks the river Durance, heard shots sometime after midnight on Aug. 5, he turned over and went back to sleep. But as soon as it was daylight Dominici took a walk along the riverbank in the direction of a car he had seen parked by the road the evening before. Beside the river he stumbled over the body...
...Stevenson called the custodian of Lincoln's house, where Lincoln had lived between 1844 and 1861, and from where he had gone to the White House. Stevenson said he just wanted to drop by for a visit. The door was unlocked for the governor. From 11 p.m. to midnight Adlai Stevenson stayed alone in the living room. No one is sure what he did there, but some say that for a time he sat in Abraham Lincoln's rocking chair, meditating...
...midnight and from high above, the most spread-out city in America [Los Angeles] appeared like an infinite garden of lights, with just the touch of fantasy-within-symmetry which is suitable to a garden à la française. When one looks at things in America from above, one is sure to find them beautiful. I think that is proof that they are beautiful...
...Louisiana delegation in a secret midnight meeting, caught by an enterprising ABC camera crew through a crack in the wall of the caucus room. ¶ Senator Paul Douglas, hoarse-voiced and face twisted with emotion, shouting for recognition on his motion to adjourn before the balloting could begin. ¶ Democratic Nominee Adlai Stevenson, emerging from the Astor Street house where he had waited out the convention's decision. For three days a modern journalistic army had bivouacked in the quiet, aristocratic street, setting up a battery of portable telephones and mobile TV transmitters, festooning the elm trees with dangling...