Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reds threatened to open fire with a machine gun. Alarmed, French police broke through and dispersed the mob. Instead of going home, demonstrators surged about eight blocks away to the offices of the Communist newspaper L'Humanité, hurled cobblestones through windows, fought with Communist defenders until past midnight. In all, 106 Frenchmen were injured, and a Communist died of the pummeling he took...
Ignominious End. That afternoon Eden told the House of Commons: "Her Majesty's government are ordering their forces to cease-fire at midnight tonight." The Labor benches broke into a spontaneous cheer. Moments later, the Tories realized that, if Eden had ordered it, a cease fire must be Tory policy, and they too began belatedly to cheer...
...pressures came from outside: from U.S. Ambassador Douglas Dillon calling three times during the week to urge the Premier to heed President Eisenhower's advice for a ceasefire. And they came from Anthony Eden, who by telephone from London asked Mollet for a joint cease-fire-and by midnight. Mollet wanted the cease-fire delayed for 36 hours, so that allied forces could take the whole Suez Canal. Eden refused. How about an extra 24 hours? No. Twelve hours? No. Six hours? Impossible, replied Eden. Mollet turned back to his ministers and shrugged: "We can't do anything...
Shortly before midnight, two full companies of veteran Chinese Communist infantry slipped across the paddyfields behind a crushing artillery barrage, and struck Pork Chop. Harrold, afraid of seeming overanxious, delayed calling for help; by the time both his men and his superiors were fully alerted, the Chinese had overrun half his battered outpost. The question shot up the chain of command to casualty-conscious headquarters in Tokyo: Did the U.S. want to pay the price for holding Pork Chop, a barren hump of Korean ground only 150 yards across...
...work and no play, however. Each girl pays compulsory dorm dues, and can get her money's worth by attending the hall's social functions. These include the famed twice-yearly Jolly-Ups, Sunday afternoon tea hours, and weekly open-house nights, when the dorm stays open until midnight in stead of the usual 10 p.m. After dinner sociability takes the form of demi-tasse in the living room, with the head resident pouring coffee into miniscule cups...