Word: midnight
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Donald N. Carlisle, a neighbor of Lobig, said yesterday the he heard a "large noise," coming from Lobig's room somewhere between midnight and 1 a.m. yesterday. Carlisle said he did not investigate the noise because it subsided quickly...
...would arise from his piano to dance about, tapping his foot to the beat of the music. "Jazz is my adventure," said Monk. "I'm after new chords, new figurations, new runs." Some of his most noteworthy pieces, now part of standard repertory, include 'Round About Midnight, Blue Monk, Hackensack, Epistrophy and Straight, No Chaser...
...reference to his threat of unilateral intervention, Brezhnev informed Nixon that he had dispatched 70 Soviet "representatives"?apparently not military personnel?to observe implementation of the ceasefire. The Soviets had backed off. The immediate danger was over. I recommended that Schlesinger stand down the alert starting at midnight...
...sheer numbers hardly explain this flowering of fecundity. For many women, the biological clock of fertility is running near its end. Menopause will strike at midnight. The ancient Pleistocene call of the moon, of salt in the blood, and genetic encoding buried deep in the chromosomes back there beneath the layers of culture?and counterculture?are making successful businesswomen, professionals and even the mothers of grown children stop and reconsider. Says Pulitzer-prizewinning Boston Globe Columnist Ellen Goodman: "You find women who have believed work is the end-all and beall. But after eight years, they say, just like...
Baseball players at least get to unpack for a three-day series, but the pro-basketball life constitutes vaudeville, endless one-night stands, night after night; catching the last flight at midnight or the first one in the morning; playing 100 games a year-too many for the body, the soul and even the customers. "Sometimes," says Grevey, "your legs start to ache real bad just walking down the steps to go to the game, and you realize they aren't even injured, they're just tired. Then, on the court, you feel like you're playing...