Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Second Charge. This did not satisfy the Reds. Three days later, half an hour before midnight, they telephoned the U.N. base at Munsan, claiming that an outrageous air attack had occurred, and asked that U.N. investigators be dispatched to Kaesong at once. They went...
...this. It seems to have resulted from parents naming all their children Nigel and Diana, which, God knows, is reason enough.) Ten minutes later, the entire group is clustered around the bar gloomily tossing down whiskies and longing for the good old prewar days when bars stayed open till midnight...
...confided that he planned to flee to Formosa. "I was worried on hearing this, fearing that this criminal husband of mine would escape, so I said, 'Instead of leaving today, wait until tomorrow.' I went to the police. That night I could not fall asleep, but around midnight the police comrades came and arrested this harmful thing which was not my husband but my enemy. I feel happy to have got rid of a menace to the people...
Listeners who tuned in late on the midnight Moscow radio news got a shock-the Russian broadcaster was saying: ". . . Truth can only be arrived at if there is freedom to hear different points of view . . . Many facts and views are withheld from you, and there is no freedom of speech and free access to knowledge of how the rest of the world lives and thinks . . . [Foreign] broadcasts to the Soviet Union [are] jammed by your government. I wonder why. What has your government to fear...
Reducing Diet. Lanza, who once weighed close to 300 Ibs., peeled down to a svelte 169 for his first movie, 1949's That Midnight Kiss; that time, Director Norman Taurog kept a scale on the set and weighed him in like a jockey every morning. His weight went up in 1950's The Toast of New Orleans, and again in his latest picture. "I gained weight on purpose during those pictures," insists Lanza, who is sensitive on the subject. "I wanted to look like Caruso, didn't I? What do they want to have...