Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About 45 minutes after Sunday midnight, a reporter at Jacksonville's Florida Times-Union snatched up a noisy phone, heard a man identify himself in pine-soft accent as a member of the "Confederate Underground." He had just blasted the Jewish Center and a Negro school, he bragged, and bombings would continue until segregation is restored everywhere in the South...
Then came the letdown to the field. It was a few minutes past midnight-two hours since the trouble had begun-when Obie turned into his final approach. He was too high, too far to the left of the runway. "I didn't have time to think. The GCA station was telling me to go around. The tower told me to go around-everybody in the world told me to go around. I didn't say one word. I just kept coming in. I felt I had used every bit of energy I ever had. I didn...
...even nicer to have Moira Wylie around. Miss Wylie plays an extravagantly dissolute floozie who somehow finds herself in Berlin in 1930, singing for her supper and doing other things for her midnight snack. Sally Bowles is a lady, or used to be; her sophistication is only an extreme from of naivete. Miss Wylie has a devastating slink and drawl for her comedy scenes, and a very effective, throaty half-sob for the serious ones. She is lovable and ridiculous and pleasantly exasperating all at once, in exactly the right proportions. Sally is a difficult role but a juicy...
...last Saturday night in April was ordained as a membership party by the new executives. It had begun at eight, and by midnight devoted idealists, dates, and the Dedicated Few were...
Favorite Subject. One gay midnight a year ago, Zind was drinking champagne and schnapps in an Offenburg bar when a stranger strolled in, and Zind invited him over. The pair got along famously until 2 a.m., and then Zind began to discourse on his favorite subject: his hatred of Jews. "I ought to tell you," said Kurt Lieser, 47, the stranger, "that I spent the war in a concentration camp, and am Jewish." "What?" Zind exclaimed. "That means they forgot to gas you, too? The Nazis did not gas enough Jews." Two bar companions stepped in to prevent a fight...