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Word: midnighters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cautiously, tentatively, Seoul came back to normal. The crowded tea shops buzzed with excited conversation among Koreans who still could hardly believe their power had toppled Syngman Rhee's twelve-year rule. When the curfew was moved up to midnight, jazz bands resumed their raucous ways and the noisy, bright-lit bars were awash with tipsy revelers and eager ladies of the evening. In fact, except for a few damaged buildings and the soldiers guarding the National Assembly, there were no outward signs at all of Korea's fortnight of revolt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: After the Storm | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

...cameras along the processional route and in Westminster Abbey, then jet-flown from London. NBC's coverage will be shown in two parts, from 7:30-8:30 p.m., and earlier in the day (time to be an nounced). CBS will show its version from 11:15 until midnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, may 9, 1960 | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

Cruising around town in a new Brazilian version of the Alfa Romeo called the JK, Kubitschek signed autographs and shook hands by the thousands before turning up at a special midnight Mass. Out of bed after four hours of sleep, he raised a flag over the new capital, attended a joint session of Congress (where the air conditioning failed), watched a parade of 5,000 troops and 10,000 workers as 38 tons of fireworks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Capital Confusion | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

...tape recording before being accepted, played a 20-minute set in the opening sessions of the two-day festival. The ten finalists played additional 20-minute sets the second evening. Tired and a little lightheaded from several rounds of Irish coffee and all that jazz, the judges retired at midnight, quickly made their choices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jazz on the Campus | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

Oscar Awards (NBC, 10:30-12 midnight). The annual prize fest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Apr. 4, 1960 | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

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