Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Police Grilling. LIFE'S McCombe had photographed most of these events, returned to his room in the Plaza Hotel. There, just after midnight, all the lights flashed on. Four men were standing by his bed. A beefy cop tugged at the bedclothes and said: "Venga [Come along]." As McCombe dressed, agents ransacked his luggage and confiscated a camera. Meanwhile, in his third-floor apartment, TIME'S Shea was also roused by the midnight knock of two plainclothes policemen. They told him he was wanted for questioning in connection with the afternoon's trouble at La Prensa. Shea...
Officials talked to the students at midnight and were still meeting at 2 a.m. this morning. Captain of Detectives Patrick F. Ready, who joins investigations only when arson is suspected, questioned the students about a missing fire extinguisher. The students said they used one to quench the flames, but could not show it to officials. Randall offered no theories about how the fire started...
Organized labor struck against the mobilization program last week. At a sullen, midnight meeting of the Wage Stabilization Board, outvoted, unable to get their demands, labor's three WSB delegates went into an elaborate huff and quit the board. By their drastic action, taken with apparent disregard for the consequences, labor's bosses brought half of the Administration's price-wage machinery to a standstill, confronted War Mobilizer Charles Wilson with a war in his own backyard, imperiled the nation's whole economy...
...Just before midnight on 5th-6th December the police departed, after obtaining ... signatures to the effect that ... we had been courteously treated throughout . . . Guards were left in the house and all consular personnel placed under house arrest...
Because of the college's isolated location, Dartmouth men have to enjoy their social lives in a series of short spurts. Since the Carnival is one of the biggest of the periodic jolly times, the college thoughtfully extends dorm parietal rules until midnight on Friday and Saturday, a liberal attitude which hasn't quite made it as far south as Cambridge yet. The curfew in the fraternity houses is 4 a.m. and any brother found in the house with his date past that hour is liable to a five-dollar fine, or so we were told...