Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chair, takes off his steel-rimmed glasses, polishing them with a handkerchief in deft circular strokes. It is an uncommonly sad face that is revealed, but the visitor notices the eyes, cool and piercing, the strong, shovel-like chin, and there is an impression of sincerity and power. At midnight Gomulka drops his pencil, closes the manila folder on an unfinished speech, a lone late-staying assistant throws a dark overcoat over Gomulka's thin shoulders, and he clumps out to his ZIS limousine, pausing a moment to look across the streets and roofs of Warsaw shining with frost...
...system has not always worked perfectly. At first, he had to do push-ups to stay awake, and had trouble falling asleep when he went to bed. He also complains that in the early morning he has to wear a parka because there is no dormitory heat after midnight...
...midnight Radio Belgrade announced to the world that the Nagy party had not reached their homes. Under Secretary Vidic protested angrily to the Kadar government: "If the agreement [to return the Nagy group to their homes ] is not implemented, the Yugoslav government will consider it a flagrant violation, not only of the existing friendly relations between the two countries, but also of the generally recognized norms of international...
...last, Parry reported in to Travis Air Force Base, near Sacramento. But neither married life (sans children) nor the Air Force itself was going to interfere with his quest for the supreme shotput. "They acted like they felt I could work out satisfactorily from 12 midnight to 8 in the morning," he recalls with indignation. "So I wrote to Washington and got transferred over to Special Services." There Parry's job was to arrange movies at the base theater-a task only slightly more complicated than taking care of the U.S.C. shotput ring...
...right after a game, and that to permit it to continue past the start of a House dance would be to risk numerous wrecked autos between Cambridge and Wellesley. There is a slight risk of this, but persons inclined to drink can now find places to booze until midnight, and no similarly disastrous results appear for parties held at other times of the year, or even on occasions like Spring Weekends, where drinking goes on, though not in rooms, from early afternoon until the liquor runs...