Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weekend before jury selection was to start, two of the mediators worked round the clock, shuttling between empty courtrooms in the cavernous Brooklyn federal courthouse with proposals and counterproposals. The lawyers napped on tables and benches, munched on delicatessen sandwiches, played cards and studied the latest offers. At midnight before the Monday trial, the sides were still $70 million apart and in disagreement over interest payments, but Judge Weinstein refused to delay the case. Less than three hours later he was able to tell the veterans' lawyers: "The case is over if you take 180." They did. Some...
...Miami Herald, however, claimed that Kennedy spent the last days of his life "in what hotel employees called an alcoholic haze." The paper said David drank vodka and grapefruit juice at the hotel bar all day; one day it was "straight through to midnight." A hotel employee corroborated that version...
After the British government responded by breaking relations with the government of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and giving his representatives until midnight Sunday to vacate the premises in London, it seemed at first that the petulant Gaddafi might hold out until the last possible moment before repatriating his people. The British remained fearful that a slip-up could lead to a gun battle in St. James's Square and a greater loss of life. In the end, however, after more than a week of painstaking negotiation, the withdrawal of diplomats and the closing of embassies was accomplished without further mishap...
...urban entrepreneur working in direct competition with the state. With the help of a brother and sister, Bai handles 80 to 100 customers a day in his neat, red-painted studio, which he keeps open until 8 p.m. seven days a week. He works in the darkroom until midnight, processing the negatives and retouching them to eliminate warts, wrinkles and other unflattering features. "I don't rest," Bai says. "Even during festivals, I never close." Bai usually charges less than one yuan (500) for a portrait, undercutting prices at the state-run photographic studio up the street. After paying...
...illuminated portrait of his mum, and rapped with her spirit, seeking guidance on how much to tax, when to call an election and where to send the troops." He ventures toward the Arctic Circle, to Yellowknife, capital of the Northwest Territories, where the big golf tournament starts at midnight and the rule book states, "No penalty assessed when ball carried off by raven." Richler finds ecumenism where others see only ice: on Great Slave Lake, he is told, Indians net vast numbers of pike that end as gefilte fish in Chicago...