Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That first evening we went to bed around midnight, but we were still excited and went on talking. Andryusha was trying to convince me that he had to start a hunger strike again in two weeks. Then he said that he had hope that maybe we could manage without a strike. I think he was afraid and really wanted to avoid a repetition. When we stopped talking he soon fell asleep. I lay with my hand on his chest, feeling his heart beat. First there would be several normal beats, then uneven beats, then two or three, followed by such...
...Eddie rants, and Richard Cretini catches up along toward midnight and lets down his nets, but no one is hauling in anything to speak of. By first light not a boat is left in the channel. There had been cruel words on the radio all night -- all summer, for that matter -- but no violence...
...Kegs Over Quincy" party, which featured quantities of beer, was broken up at around midnight when Erikson said things "clearly got out of hand." The party was organized by a group of third floor residents, partygoers said...
After a week of tiring and often tense negotiations that ran well past midnight last Friday, the ministers resolved their differences and successfully launched the "Uruguay Round" of trade talks. Up until the last minute, delegates were haggling over such sticky agenda topics as agricultural subsidies and restrictions on trade in services. U.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter, who staggered back to his hotel room at 5:30 a.m. Saturday and got only two hours of sleep before boarding a plane home, was ecstatic at * the outcome. Said he: "The launching of the Uruguay Round is a major victory...
There was perhaps a touch of contrivance in the drama of Egyptian Prime Minister Ali Lutfi flying home last week from London, where he had met with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, to preside over a midnight Cabinet meeting to approve the Taba agreement. But it was a welcome change from the grim tales of hijacking, kidnaping and wanton murder that so regularly emanate from the region. If nothing else, the Taba agreement and the Alexandria summit demonstrated that even in the Middle East, common sense can sometimes...