Word: midnighters
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...midnight, Sept. 11, 2001, it hit me when I got back to Boston that...for the rest of my life, my birthday is going to be like D-Day, but worse, and I realized I’m not going to be going out to the clubs to celebrate,” he said. “But then I realized that’s probably the best way to deal with it—we’re alive and in pretty good shape, and let’s celebrate it while we’re here...
Shortly after nightfall, a pair of Black Hawk helicopters extricated Maroyka and the other seriously wounded men. As midnight approached, three CH-47s returned to the valley's southern tip. Perez wearily climbed up the ramp, where he ran into Grippe. "Are you sure we've got everybody?" Grippe yelled at him over the roar of the turbines. For the first time that day, Perez had his doubts. He scampered into the darkness and surveyed the area with his night-vision goggles one more time. Finding no Americans, he ran back to the chopper just before it lifted off. Maroyka...
...woke last night and listened to the silence. It was a late, deep hour, long after midnight, long before dawn. I thought about how, for someone with Alzheimer's, silence must be like a prison, another corner of the wasteland. There can be nothing soothing or serene about...
...November breeze or the funnyman of freon or the iceman comic or whatever suggests a synonym for coolness and the reversifier. There were other poets whom academe might choose to throw glory at, But Nash was our light-poet laureate. If you doubt that Nash is the perfect bedside midnight snack, if not a feast to dine on, then I urge you to find a copy of "Verses from 1929 On," Where 800 or so examples of Nashiana will set you briskly browsing Until you realize it's dawn and you realize you've been laughing but not sleeping...
...Square, the 32-year-old Espinoza is after the student population, which he plans to court with cheap prices—the lunch menu will range from $2.95 to $5.95—and late hours: Real Taco will close at midnight Sunday through Wednesday, and at 2 a.m. Thursday through Saturday...