Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite his frail physique, Chou was seemingly inexhaustible. Like many other leaders of the Chinese revolution, he liked to work through the night. Visitors to China, even in recent years, were often ushered into Chou's presence after midnight, finding him tireless and perpetually alert in conversations that lasted until daybreak. His wife Teng Yingchao, a prominent revolutionary in her own right, admitted that she was unable to persuade him to slow his exhausting tempo even after his declining health forced him to delegate some responsibility to his heir apparent, Vice Premier Teng...
...social schedule in Danvers was topped by he Glen Magna ball and antique show, and Twi-League baseball. Other than Route One's meat-on-he-hoof singles spots, the town's only after midnight establishment was Supreme Roast Beef...
...worst is a Canada trip. You're in Pennsylvania or southern Connecticut somewhere and you have a game at 7:30. You finish at 10 or 10:30 or whenever, and the bus leaves at midnight. It gets to Canada at 9 in the morning, and you have to sit around and drink coffee because you can't check into the motel until noon. Then a game that same day. There's nothing like being the starting pitcher for the first game or a Canada trip...
...Harvard police force has worn uniforms for many years, although some officers still patrol in plainclothes, especially between midnight...
...course it wouldn't be the same. We had always combined our parties with a "surprise" birthday celebration for our friend Shelley, whose birthday, appropriately enough, coincided with the New Year at midnight. But now Shelley is a married lady of some six months and living in Chicago...