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Word: midnight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several students were setting off firecrackers in the quad at the stroke of midnight in part of the Quad's midnight "howl celebration" to begin exam period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Small Roof Fire Forces Evacuation Of Barnard Hall | 1/15/1981 | See Source »

...small fire on the roof of Barnard Hall at Radcliffe Quad, forced the evacuation of about 100 students this morning at midnight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Small Roof Fire Forces Evacuation Of Barnard Hall | 1/15/1981 | See Source »

...between long hours of desk drudgery and success in the presidency. It was Lyndon Johnson who instituted the two-days-in-one work routine, claiming prodigious achievements that began at 10 a.m. and ran until 4 p.m., then a two-hour nap, followed by work from 6 p.m. to midnight or so. Secretaries and assorted aides came in two shifts. There is the faint suspicion that if Johnson had throttled back a bit, we would be in less trouble today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: On the Need to Relax, Stay Home and Meditate | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

Precisely at midnight, Poland's Communist-controlled radio gulped, then sent out over the air waves the combined symbol of the nation's rebirth and peril: midnight Mass. Though most Poles were at that moment in their own parish churches, the broadcast from Cracow's Wawel Cathedral, the former seat of Archbishop Karol Wojtyla, was a telling concession from the country's atheist government to the changes that have swept the land in the past four months. As if the Mass were not unusual enough, Pope John Paul II-who after his election two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Rebirth and Peril | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

...cold to study, too cold to sleep; and since there's no other place to study after midnight, it affects our performance in school," Lisa M. Alvarez '84, a Weld resident, said yesterday. She added that many students living in the dormitory had colds and one student had contracted strep throat...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Weld Students File Heating Complaint With Health Board | 12/17/1980 | See Source »

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