Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Suddenly they are everywhere, a blitzkrieg of attractive and affable-and politically acute-wives and sons and daughters-in-law, plus an occasional daughter, brother or aunt, all barnstorming the country like seasoned pros, living out of suitcases, up at 5:30 a.m. and to bed at midnight, addressing the local Kiwanis Club and staging rousing rallies in shopping centers, the gallant families of Jimmy Carter and Jerry Ford, doing their bit to win the election for dear...
...Harvard student who was hit by a car at the intersection of Memorial Drive and DeWolfe St. shortly before midnight Tuesday was listed in stable condition yesterday afternoon at Mt. Auburn Hospital...
...Followed (since none of the four speaking countries) by two to three hours of language lessons. The missionaries, armed with seven basic memorized lessons about their religion, would then go out into the country to spread their Gospel, sometimes staying out until after midnight...
Stout (smoothly): What about people who are just getting off a midnight shift? How should they feel...
These new politicians wince in honest horror at old-style racist demagoguery. Mississippi's venomous little Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo stayed in power for more than three decades by such tactics as describing one opponent as "begotten in a nigger graveyard at midnight" or, in defending himself against charges of religious bigotry, by declaring himself in favor of "every damn Jew from Jesus Christ on down...