Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talk about this before midnight," he said, "I'll kill the girl." He turned Gilbert loose, and got on a Washington-bound bus with Carolyn. "I know a cheap hotel," he confided. "I'll kill you if you scream." When they walked into the lobby, she winked desperately at a lounging marine; the marine simply winked back. She wept when Irwin shut the door of their room. She was forced to submit to him four more times during the night...
...London's Palladium Theater, a midnight audience paid about $50,000 to see a benefit show staged for the three children of the late British Comedian Sid Field, tossed lusty bravos and cheers at a new comic team: Sir Laurence Olivier and wife Vivien Leigh, who slipped into sailor costumes to join Danny Kaye in a popular ditty called Triplets...
Congress had only until Saturday midnight to act. By then the Defense Production Act would expire, and with it all the President's power to control a galloping war economy. Obviously Congress would not let that happen. Congressional leaders got set to jam through a temporary extension until a new bill was ready to take its place. That new bill is not apt to please Harry Truman...
After the polls closed, first results flickered across luminous screens along the Champs Elysées. Parisians sat in their sidewalk cafés, totting up figures. Radical Premier Henri Queuille stayed up until long past midnight, finally went to bed saying: "As for me, I'm not worried." He was re-elected in his own district...
...Class of '51 begins several days of calculated abandon tonight with a Senior Spread, a formal dance, and a midnight dance in the courtyard of Eliot House. The festivities will begin at 10 p. m. and will carry on until...