Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secret that I had nervous twinges as she plunged down in excess of 300 feet. How fast she will race through the dark, briny depths is also a secret. But it was the thrill of a lifetime to break all previous records in this respect as the midnight hour approached . . . The food we ate was cooked by atomic power. The water we drank was distilled from ocean water by atomic energy. The submarine was not only driven but lighted, heated and air-conditioned by atomic energy...
After Saturday midnight, voting began. Five amendments, designed variously to defer ratification until after an attempt at a disarmament pact with Russia, until the allies agreed on the arms pool, until France received "new guarantees" from its allies, were defeated by comfortable margins. Finally the Senate voted the accords themselves. The vote on the key WEU pact was 184-110, the others even more decisive...
...Ever since then. Goody has spoken sulphurously of Dick in private, and the California G.O.P. central committee, which the governor controls, has slighted the Vice President instead of offering him the traditional home-state support. Last week the governor welcomed the Vice President with the warmth of an arctic midnight...
...fourth floor of the Department of Athletics, under lock and key, rests an infamous roulette wheel which Tom Bolles & Co. twirl three times a year. Some midnight last December, while the windows were frosted and baseball bats locked in their rack, the black and red went spinning. A gleeful smile, a click, click, click, and six Christmas presents to six varsity coaches...
Champagne Taste. In Port Arthur, Ont., Farm Hand Apolinaris Lazdinas, 32, was jailed after he announced in a local restaurant that he could not pay a $4.25 check for the 42 raw eggs, four hot dogs and three hamburgers he had downed for a midnight snack...