Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...panel's last official day of existence. The group finally reached a compromise agreement that satisfied a majority of the commission's 15 members and had the blessings of the President and Thomas P. O'Neill, Speaker of the Democratic-controlled House, several hours short of midnight. Said a tired but pleased Alan Greenspan, a Republican economist and chairman of the commission: "All of us swallowed hard...
...first, police reinforcements thought they could talk Hester's captors out. The officers barricaded the area, surrounded the cult headquarters and evacuated nearby buildings. Police established contact with Sanders over Hester's police radio. Nearly incoherent, Sanders repeatedly threatened to "blow [Hester's] head off." By midnight the batteries in the police radio had run down, and contact was maintained through a bullhorn and occasionally the telephone...
Earlier in the day, in a fit of self-dramatization, they had arranged for two friends to show up at midnight at the Gate on Mass Ave and look for them in the third-level window. Because of the delay in the men's room, Jack and Jill barely made it to Carrel # 232 in time. The original contacts had brought along three more, and the entire group was waving and jumping up and down and pointing. But just as Jack and Jill flipped on the individual carrel light to improve the view, a woman walked through the Mass...
...show begins shortly after midnight and lasts half an hour. Cornelia's syrupy voice might, with training, resemble Teresa Brewer's. The band sounds terrific. That is, the four professional mu sicians (two guitarists, drummer and pianist) Stein hired to play in the shadows downstage sound terrific. Two of Cornelia's friends strum soundless guitars at center stage, faking the struts and grimaces of rock stars. Cornelia seems like a bashful cheerleader, smirky and proud and a little unsure. The last of the eight songs is Satisfaction, which Cornelia's friend Mick Jagger recorded with...
After a two-hour debate dragging past midnight, the Senate early this morning voted 23 to 5 to override Gov. Edward J King's veto. The House of Representatives is expected to consider a similar proposal today...