Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...midnight on Monday, April 21, the Conservative Club erected a shanty in Harvard Yard to protest the existence of all such structures in the Yard and to make it clear that oppression does not only exist in South Africa, but is actually sponsored by such kind and decent regimes as the Soviet Union as well...
...will defend to the death everyone's right to say anything they want, no matter how much I disagree with them. Pithy rhyming couplets shouted through megaphones at midnight vigils are protected by our nation's Constitution. But our Constitution also protects the rights of others and the right of property, both of which SASC has chosen to trample upon. So it is that Harvard is left with ugly, meaningless piles of wood, feeble echoes of other schools' shantytowns, that fail to address the root problems SASC claims to be concerned about--instead of working toward the improvement of rights...
...midnight, the air was biting. Our contacts had been made. After watching the changing of the guard in front of Lenin's tomb, and digesting the impressive splendor of St. Basil's Cathedral we returned in pairs to the hotel...
...people in Riga who wanted invitations from Israel and the names of refuseniks who wanted visitors. My discomfort and surprise at watching adult men and women use toys meant for children disappeared as I saw the "magic slate" among many other families during that week. We left after midnight and quickly returned to Hotel Latvia, and to our room that overlooked a church that had been converted to a planetarium...
...Congress if they kept silent, Joseph and Ralph Bernstein described the complicated dealings of the Philippine first family, who allegedly hold three office buildings and an enclosed, multistory shopping mall in Manhattan, estimated to be worth some $350 million. Joseph Bernstein even recalled joining Mrs. Marcos on a midnight drive to a Wall Street building, where she went to gaze in admiration at her possession. "She was kind of proud of it," he said...