Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly before midnight, the Higbee's sonarman sat up straight before his dials and scopes. Through the earphones came an unmistakable, high-pitched whine. He punched a floor switch with his foot, barked out an electrifying message to the bridge. "Torpedo sounds . . . torpedo sounds...
...Tutors advertised: "Diploma by Harvard--Tutoring by Wolff." The College Tutoring Bureaus claimed that it "has helped hundreds of Harvard students get better grades in their courses. We are now ready to serve you with our Notes, Outlines, and Liberal Translations." University Tutors made a different sort of appeal: "Midnight oil; loathesome toil." Another group advertised that "tutoring ....is not a crutch for the lasy or unintelligent bay, but a constructive educational technique...
...prestige that goes with having helped Lenin hatch Communism. Molotov is still in high favor 35 years later. The experts prefer to put it negatively: it is no longer clear that Molotov outranks Malenkov. And not far behind is Lavrenty Beria, the mysterious, pince-nezed master of the midnight arrest and lord of the slave camps, whose Gletkin-like climb has paralleled Malenkov's. But there have been signs that 52-year-old Beria is Malenkov's friend & ally, not his competitor...
...Murrow, "noted CBS commentator [who] flew in the B-36 which A-bombed Moscow at midnight, July 22, 1953," was in Paris when the special issue came out. "The net effect among my friends there," said Murrow last week, "was unfortunate...
...station's schedule, released yesterday, features Dixieland, swing, and modern jazz from today until 12 midnight on January 10. Other programs will be devoted to Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque music through Bach; Haydn, Mozart and pre-Beethoven; Beethoven; the Romantics; the Moderns from R. Strauss; Gilbert and Sullivan and opera...