Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Africa's 51st independent state was born at a midnight ceremony that was almost like a love-in. Representatives of 96 nations, headed by Britain's Prince Charles, were among the 40,000 spectators* who jammed a football stadium in Salisbury (soon to be renamed Harare, after a famed tribal chief), as the Union Jack was lowered for the last time in what had been Rhodesia. In its place rose the multistriped banner of Zimbabwe. To honor the historic occasion, there were tribal dances and a parade that seemed to symbolize the peaceful end to seven years...
...life, Miró loved to put poetic titles on his pictures. Example: The Nightingale's Song at Midnight and Morning Rain, 1940. Find the nightingale? The song? The rain? The viewer may never puzzle out any of these challenges, but he will have been forced to let his imagination investigate the whole of the picture...
...prison staff telephones, then embarrassed the officers with his knowledge of their sexual affairs and theft of prison property. At his final prison stop, the federal prison camp at Allenwood, Pa., Liddy enraged one group of convicts by persuading guards to turn off TV sets after midnight so he could sleep. The angry prisoners first harassed him, then even vowed to kill...
President Carter announced yesterday that the United States is breaking diplomatic relations with Iran and that all Iranian diplomats and officials will be ordered to leave the country by midnight tonight...
...betrayed her race. A romantic idealist, she struggles to convince herself that her love for Herman is a simple emotion, uncomplicated by their racial difference. But America's history of sexual relations between white men and Black women echoes of ugly racism: Southern gentlemen--even Jefferson--enjoyed frequent midnight strolls through their slave quarters, looking for Black women to sleep with; in most cases, these country squires took no responsibility for the slave children they fathered. Julia's female neighbors have not forgotten that sexual abuse and cannot help feeling that she allows Herman to use her body merely...