Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they moved this fall into a handsome new school built at a cost of $5.7 million. The football, track and wrestling teams all had hopes for statewide ranking, and in the homecoming game the Eagle Point eleven beat its old rival Phoenix High, 20-14. The seniors danced past midnight at the Holiday Inn. That same day, the school closed...
January 11--Widener, Houghton Fine Arts, and Littauer closed; Hilles, Lamont and Cabot Science open 2 p.m. to midnight...
...Captiva, in the Gulf waters that lie south of Tampa, Fla. There, equipped with two lithographic presses, he presides over a working commune of printers and friends, whose timetable has become adjusted to his: breakfast at noon, swim, work all afternoon and evening, dinner never earlier than midnight. "You can't imagine," he cackles, "how many disturbances I miss out on down here." This landscape offers the clue to his recent work, beginning with the Hoarfrosts and continuing through Jammers, a series of delicate sewn constructions of silk, twine and rattan cane. They are without pretension, and hardly displace...
Shortly after midnight on December 2, 1973, the burglars told the nightwatchman they had left a package in the museum. When the nightwatchman responded, he found himself under gunpoint. He was then taped and blindfolded, and led up to the third floor coin room where the thieves ransacked the premises for the coins...
...this point that the junta decided to strike back violently, having so far kept a low profile. The occupation was already assuming the dimensions of a general popular uprising, which it could not tolerate. From midnight of the 16th to the night of the 17th, the rumble of tanks was heard as they descended on the Polytechnic from their camps in the north of Athens. At three o'clock in the morning of the 17th, a tank smashed the main gate of the school and special mountain warfare units of the army stormed the building. The students, their hands...