Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...among the sacks in the back of a mail truck. Then the truck jounced past two German sentries, on its way to an open field six kilometers from town. Thirty townsmen had already slipped out to the field, to signal with flashlights to an approaching R.A.F. plane. Shortly after midnight, Auriol, General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny and three other passengers were safe in the air, bound for London...
...Socialists succeeded in ending House of Commons sittings before midnight on every day except one last week. Then Parliament recessed over Easter, suspending the Tories' war of nerves against the government. Said the London Economist: "To harass the government on petty matters, to hold Parliament in a state of continuous tension, is all right, and will probably not provoke any real public disapproval, if it does not last very long; after a while . . . it will simply make the opposition look silly...
...movie singer who confesses breezily that he once scraped the label off a Caruso record and substituted one with his own name on it to get a part in an Air Force show. He can afford to be breezy now. After his first two movie roles (in That Midnight Kiss and The Toast of New Orleans'), Hollywood has cast Tenor Lanza as The Great Caruso, and Hollywood is inclined to feel that Caruso is doing well to get his name in the title. Meanwhile, so far as the new crop of U.S. bobby-soxers is concerned, Frank Sinatra might...
...committee will be in charge of all activities during Senior Week in the spring. This will include a Baccalaurcate Service, a formal dance, a midnight supper, Class Day exercises, the Harvard-Yale baseball game, an informal dinner, a Band and Glee Club concert, and the Commencement...
Food comes from the central kitchen, with all that that implies, but the weekly teas at the Master's and the convenient Eliot Grill preserve some vestiges of gracious living.House residents use the Eliot Grill until 12 midnight six nights a week and save themselves a trip to the Square, Purchases are made with coupone the cost of which is added to the term bill...