Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next night, Argentina's army commanders convened in their Buenos Aires headquarters. During the heated midnight-to-6 a.m. meeting with his top 14 generals, Galtieri insisted on pursuing the war with Britain as if Argentina still had something left to fight with. When the others demurred, Galtieri offered to resign. "O.K.," he said, "I can't count on the army." With that, he retired to Campo de Mayo, the sprawling barracks of the First Army Corps on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. There he remained until the head of the army's general staff...
...Force One landed at Orly Airport near Paris a few minutes before midnight on a rainy Wednesday. Nancy held an umbrella over the President as they trod a soggy red carpet, to be greeted by French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson. It was not a night for ceremony. The Reagans sped off to the residence of U.S. Ambassador Evan Galbraith to recuperate from jet lag and prepare for the first serious task: cementing Reagan's friendship with French President François Mitterrand, his host at the Versailles summit...
...disharmonies, with a face-the discomfited scowl, the sudden stabbingly inappropriate smile-like five cats and a bitter Calvinist thrown into a Hefty bag. There was G. Gordon Liddy, the wild hair Nietzsche who held his hand in candle flames. There was Martha Mitchell, the Aunt Pittypat embarrassment and midnight telephone dipso who turned into an oracle...
...does Watergate seem to Americans now? How did it change them? History since Watergate has, in some ways, bent opinion toward the French view of the affair. Watergate has always been a sort of conundrum of the disproportionate. How could such a trivial event as a midnight break-in at the Democratic National Committee, an idiotic little piece of ineptitude by five stooges, end by destroying the leader of the most powerful nation in the world? The break-in itself was, said Presidential Press Secretary Ron Ziegler, "a third-rate burglary attempt." The cause (a moment of incompetent political espionage...
...tell students at the Harvard Business School they work hard Nights of solid study until midnight or 1 a.m. are commonplace for these aspiring executives. The work is hard and never lets...