Word: midnights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stopped outside the Colombian Embassy on Lima's wide, tree-lined Avenida Arequipa. A bulky, broad-shouldered figure hurried up to the embassy door. It was past midnight, but the big man shouted: "Go tell the ambassador that the chief of the People's Party wants to see him." The ambassador appeared and admitted Peru's most famous political refugee to the asylum of his embassy. After three months in hiding, Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, 53-year-old boss of the outlawed People's Party (APRA), wanted diplomatic protection and a chance to flee...
After pondering the U.N. cease-fire order for five days, the Dutch last week told the council that they would cease firing in Indonesia only in their own good time. In Java, that meant midnight, Dec. 31, 1948. In Sumatra it would take two or three days longer...
About an hour after midnight the U-47 was within 3,200 yards of two battleships at anchor. The submarine was only 650 feet offshore; it was "disgustingly light." The torpedoes were fired, the submarine swung about and a torpedo fired from the stern tubes. After three minutes there was a loud explosion, followed by thundering columns of water and then by columns of fire. The harbor sprang into life. The destroyers in the anchorage were lit up. Cars sped along the highway. Directly opposite the submarine, a car stopped, turned around, and raced back toward town. Thinking the driver...
...Welles's magnificent Oxon Hill estate, his valet reported that Welles had worked late that night in his study, and around midnight had told the valet to go to bed, that he was going for a short walk. That was the last any of the servants saw of their reserved, austere employer that night. It was not unusual for Welles to take late walks; he had insomnia. His doctor said that he had been troubled with heart disease ever since he had had a heart attack 18 years ago. Lately he had been deeply upset by the death...
...their brief and bloody day, the seven old men and their fellows had ruled an empire greater than Alexander's or Caesar's or Napoleon's. Last week, at midnight after the winter solstice, the paths of Japan's top war leaders ended without glory, but with a dignity that seemed enhanced a little by the doubt and confusion among the victors...