Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stakeout was not airtight; no one was on the scene between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m., and the town house back door was not watched between midnight and 5 a.m., leaving the possibility that someone could have left the house unnoticed. The newspaper's initial story on Sunday failed to mention these lapses, but they were laid out in full in a follow-up story Monday...
...thought of getting up at 5 a.m., as some predecessors tried to do, appalls him; instead, he climbs into his White House limo at about 7:40 and is at his desk by 8. Well, maybe just a few minutes after 8. And the idea of staying around until midnight is equally disgusting. He departs by 6:30 if the world is calm, and he does his best to keep it that...
...narrator, known only as Dick, speaks with he typical voice of a jaded, street-smart gangster from the 1930's. This is how the book begins: "When I came down off the midnight shift I saw there wasn't any light in the restaurant window, and that was how I knew Lois had left me. I knew it sure, just like I knew there'd be that note in the pillow...
Beginning just before midnight Sunday, Tamil guerrillas burst into four houses in the remote Sinhalese village of Vannela, tied up 15 villagers and shot them to death...
...while saturnine Robert Moses, the master builder, was sundering neighborhoods in the name of progress. The cafe-society swells watered at El Morocco or the Stork Club, and the punters headed for Toots Shor's, mindful of the proprietor's dictum that "a bum who ain't drunk by midnight ain't trying." It was, in short, a wonderful town...