Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Police said yesterday they will have to tag all cars parked between the hours of midnight and 4 a.m. They feel that students have had enough time to unload their cars and find garage space...
Applications for the December test must be postmarked not later than midnight November 5, and for the April exam, not later than midnight March 10. As on the four previous tests, students must score above 70 on the test and or be in the upper half of their class to be considered for deferment...
...Winston Churchill, vacationing at Lido, stayed home. The Aga Khan (in Venetian domino), Barbara Hutton (dressed as Mozart, at a reputed cost of $15,000), Prince and Princess Chavchavadze (whose noble name is pronounced like a sneeze), and practically everyone else who was anybody was there. Shortly before midnight, a flourish of trumpets sounded, and the guests (1,500 in all) were ushered into the great hall, where Host de Beistegui, in scarlet robes and long curling wig, towered over all, his normal height (5 ft. 6 in.) wondrously magnified by platform soles that raised him 16 inches higher...
...brushes of varnishers and retouchers, has altered many a painting so that even its old master wouldn't know it. In 1946, restorers at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum disconcerted art lovers by cleaning up Rembrandt's famous Night Watch,* admired for generations because of its air of midnight mystery. Under decades of dust, soot and varnish was a picture painted in the clear morning light, filled with bright colors and contrasts. Last week The Hague's Mauritshuis displayed another cleaned-up Rembrandt masterpiece: The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, the Dutch master's first great...
Before long, he was getting midnight knocks and telephone calls from informants, many of them Communist officials who were secret enemies of the regime. British papers found his bulletins so reliable that the Manchester Guardian quoted them in one of its famed "leaders," the Times used them as tips for its own correspondents, and the Daily Telegraph began front-paging Josten "beats" with full credit (e.g., news of the Russian's slave-labor Czech uranium mine...