Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pomp and panoply of Britain's imperial traditions. A member of the royal family usually flew out to hand over the articles of independence. The governor general was on hand in his gold-braided uniform and cocked hat. Tribal dancers exploded in bare-breasted ecstasy. Then, promptly at midnight, bullnecked district officers wept openly as a bugle sounded and the Union Jack came down...
...sweeping social reform. He has turned out to be a reformer, all right, but of a kind that Chilenos had not quite expected. Seven months ago, he put a crimp in the national afternoon siesta by banning the three-hour lunch break. Then came a prohibition of movies after midnight and the closing of television stations at 11:45 p.m. "A nation that goes to bed late cannot work well the next day," the government explained...
...Administration's biggest complaints was the fact that no one had previously informed the White House about the pricing plans. And so, shortly before midnight, off went White House telegrams to steel magnates who had not yet decided what to do. This resulted in a certain amount of confusion. One Pennsylvania-based steel company chief executive was away from home as late as 1:15 a.m. When the phone rang, his teen-aged daughter answered, was startled to hear a Western Union operator inform her, she thought, that she was being invited to Washington to discuss the matter...
...Westerners, her voice sounds like the siren call of a lovesick cat at midnight. When Egypt's Um Kalthoum sings on Cairo radio, however, the entire Arab world falls into ecstasy...
...bridge-at midnight trEmbles; The cOuntry-dOctor rAmbles. BAnkers nieces--seek perfEction, ExpEcting All the gifts that wise-men bring. The wind hOwis--like a hAmmer, And the night blOws rAiny. My lOve, she's like some rAven, At my window with a brO--ken wing...