Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...constantly to be ricocheting from one Franciscan province to another (he has visited England, Ireland, France, Belgium, Holland, the Holy Land and the U.S.). At his Roman offices in the Franciscan Curia General, near St. Peter's, he rises at 5 a.m. for Mass, works most nights until midnight. Said Father Sépinski of his reelection: "I think the next twelve years will kill me, but it doesn't matter. The Franciscan spirit is stronger than ever in the world...
...Between midnight and 6 a.m., the President vomited three times. At 7, he received a glucose and saline solution intravenously to restore body liquids. But electrocardiograms showed no recurrence of his heart trouble, and medical specialists satisfied themselves that his ileitis was not kicking up again. At the first EISENHOWER STRICKEN headlines, the Dow-Jones stock averages tumbled 4.91 points in an hour, but increasingly optimistic medical bulletins soon had Wall Street-and everybody else-feeling better. Major John Eisenhower, driving to Florida for a vacation, was told it would be all right to keep going. White House Staff Chief...
...midnight Detroit and the towns for miles around were alive with search parties. Police loudspeakers blared down the streets, calling her name, exhorting families to search their houses for the girl. Boy Scouts and soldiers hunted the swamps and thickets of the countryside...
...days it was uncannily quiet, then at midnight the blacks hit back with an animal roar. Propelled by a rumor that their Fignole had been put to death, they burst out of the slums, put the torch to eight buildings, sacked a government warehouse. Truckloads of soldiers rolled up, sprayed the wailing, raging rioters with gunfire in the light of the flames and machine-gunned their flimsy shacks. Trucks loaded with prisoners taken at bayonet point rolled off to the jails, and the morgues of Port-au-Prince were full...
Prison Banquet. To the Texas of the 1880s Will Porter seemed the beau ideal. He dressed nattily, was quick-witted, had a good voice for midnight serenades or amateur theatricals, could dash off a funny verse or a caricature with ease. He married pretty, well-to-do Athol Estes, promptly moved in with her stepfather, and through the efforts of a friend got a job at Austin's First National Bank. All went swimmingly until 1894, when Will was 32 and the father of a five-year-old daughter. Then a sharp-eyed bank examiner dropped...