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Word: midnight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boys from Fleet Street responded in kind. They found the phone number of the $150,000 South Kensington flat her mother and father had bought for her and which she was sharing with three other young women. Reporters staked the place out and would call up till midnight and as early as six in the morning, badgering Diana for details of the romance. All this moved Mrs. Shand Kydd to write a letter of protest to the Times, and moved her daughter, finally, to tears. After a hectic pursuit from South Kensington to Mayfair, Diana sat and wept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Queen for a New Day | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

Nearly all ships of foreign registry (major exception: Norway's) have installed casinos, and virtually all bristle with one-armed bandits. Americans' heightened interest in gourmet cuisine has also been exploited by several lines that serve four whopping meals a day-the usual three plus a midnight buffet. On many ships, the dining rooms and menus aspire no higher than Howard Johnsonian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Love Boats Rule the Waves | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...midnight her roommate Lisa showed up and offered to work the printer. Heather offered her her first-born. At 2 a.m. Stuart dropped in a offered to type her last chapter into the computer, and Lisa went home. Heather started to revise her third chapter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CREATION OF A THESIS | 4/10/1981 | See Source »

...late as 11:20 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, 100 minutes before the interleague trading deadline expired at midnight, West Coast Time, the Sox had not only failed to make a deal for a catcher, but they had apparently broken off negotiations with all but one or two clubs...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Sox Do Nothing, Yanks Get Thompson (Maybe) | 4/2/1981 | See Source »

...barricades against Ronald Reagan's budget cuts. From church basements and corporate boardrooms, tens of thousands of special pleaders, lobbyists and their experts have marshaled to do battle for their special causes. It is Chautauqua, the circus, a Greek drama of a thousand acts, running from dawn to midnight, from Capitol hideaways to the Pentagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: An Army in Pinstripes and Guccis | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

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