Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PRECISE RHYTHM, HIGH TEMPO, EXCELLENT QUALITY, says one. The portraits of outstanding workers, only slightly smaller than the pictures of morose Politburo members that adorn buildings before national holidays, line the factory's central avenue. The plant runs on two shifts from 7:40 in the morning until midnight, but the assembly line workers, whose average age is about 30, seem relaxed. At times they even stand around joking. Despite the ever constant exhortations to increase productivity, the Soviets have an easygoing attitude. Minsk employees, for example, are not required to dress in work uniforms on the shop floor...
...hours with about 100 Urban League members in the Piper's Glen Room at the motel. He smoked a cigar, nibbled on hors d'oeuvres and talked with well-wishers about the civil rights struggles of the past and his hopes for the future. At about midnight, he left with Martha Coleman. Married and divorced four times, she is a supervisor for the local International Harvester Co. plant and has been a member of the Urban League for three years. According to police, the pair drove in her car to her handsome, two-story white frame house...
...show, callipygian Linda Bardot, clad mostly in a pearly headdress, twirls around under a filigreed umbrella, mouthing in puffick Cockney Oi'm Aownly aye Bird in aye Gilded Cayge. Between and after the twice-nightly shows, the place becomes a disco where the windows vibrate past midnight...
...time, Bush was perky as usual. "I hope we haven't peaked too soon," he jested of his fading candidacy. He tried to telephone his mother at almost midnight to tell her of his primary victory, and when he learned that she had gone to sleep, he remarked, "She ought to be out raising money." He still cherished hopes for a last-minute comeback in the June 3 primaries, which will rake in 428 delegates from California, Ohio, New Jersey and six other states. Said he: "We have 48 hours for euphoria." In less than 48 hours the euphoria...
...winds carried the eruption's debris northeast from the shattered mountain, thick layers of ash, looking like dirty snow, fell on eastern Washington. Yakima, a town of 50,000 located 85 miles east of the volcano, experienced midnight at noon. The mining and ranching communities of the Idaho panhandle and western Montana turned into ghostly towns in which nobody could move about the dust-choked streets without surgical masks or some substitute: handkerchiefs, bandanas, even coffee filters strapped over nose and mouth with rubber bands. Schools, factories and most stores and offices closed. Highways were closed and airports were...