Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least at the start-perhaps to divert attention from Turkey's growing economic distress. They pointed out that the rioters arrived in well-organized squads, equipped with crowbars and iron claws to pry open steel shop shutters, and that the government did not stop the riot until around midnight, when it had shown signs of becoming a general protest against the regime. Menderes suspended five newspapers for charging the government with failure to stop the pillage. Secret military courts were set up to try the arrested rioters. Last week came news that the First Chamber of Criminal Court...
...days on the street corner," one gang leader said. "Last summer, some of them would get up around 11 o'clock, go up to the corner, go back home when they felt hungry, go back up to the store until dinner, and return after dinner to stay till midnight...
...such vocational subjects as typing and radio repair. Some students are practically illiterate; one lifer is a high-school graduate who wants a "refresher"; at least three have IQs of around 140. Some are so eager that they come to class after working at regular prison jobs from midnight to 8 a.m. No matter who they are, Gragert refuses to coddle them. He has set his standards so high that a diploma from the school will be recognized as the equivalent of one from any accredited Kansas high school. "The men must work for their grades," says he. "We have...
...twilit night last week when eight bells sounded midnight aboard the British factory whaling ship Southern Venturer, breasting the sullen swells of the Antarctic Ocean, it meant "They're off!" The 1957 whaling season was officially open. All hands were ready for the first leviathan. Soon from over the leaden horizon came one of the mother ship's brood of smaller ships, towing a monstrous fin whale by its tail. Then began a mechanized dissection such as Melville did not imagine even in his most tortured dreams...
...rules, which go into effect immediately, permit entertainment of women in the Houses to midnight on Saturdays and evenings before holidays. Freshmen may have females in their rooms at 1 p.m., instead of 4p.m., on Saturdays and Sundays, and may entertain until 8 p.m. on Saturdays...