Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down by either Washington or the steelmasters, he has threatened to call a defense-disrupting steel strike as soon as his present wage contract expires. This week, in a statement designed to give the mobilizers a chilly Christmas, he growled to a news conference: "It appears a strike at midnight December 31st will be unavoidable...
Parked cars disappeared from the streets last night as the first snow of the year cloaked Cambridge. Snow plows went into action at midnight to combat the fall, which was expected to reach eight inches. In line with a city ordinance, all autos obstructing the plows were towed away...
Then, while Lila reads, Wallace walks up a winding staircase to his medieval-tower workroom. Beneath its hewn beams, soothed by soft music piped in from a control-panel below, he works, usually till midnight, at the sprawling mountain of manuscripts piled on his desk. Memos have been known to molder in the pile for years, before Wallace got around to scrawling in the margin: "Sure. Go ahead. Wally." But the stuff he regards as important does not linger there long. Next morning, Wallace loads his completed work into his briefcase and careens off to the office in his battered...
Policemen on duty at the Bowl Friday night said a group of students engaged them in conversation around midnight. During this time, apparently, accomplices were busy defacing the monument which may have to be restored by sandblasting...
...paper in time, but Warnock resolved never to take such a chance again. He wrote a special column to be held at the Times "For the issue of the day on which A.R.W. misses a deadline." Wrote he: "I've had some close calls ... at midnight occasionally I'd suddenly recall, sleepy and half ready for bed, that I had not taken next day's column down to the newspaper office. So I'd dress again, and take it down-often on a cold, snowy, rainy, blustery, calm, moonlit night . . . I don't know...