Word: nights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President looked a little 11tired after the Shriners' convention in Chicago. He said he would like to get his hands on the guy who had kept him awake one whole night singing Chloe. But he had a greater annoyance. The current scandal over war-contract procurement and the "five-percenters" (private agents who charge a 5% fee for obtaining contracts) was still hovering darkly over his good friend and military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan...
When the court recessed for the summer, Frank Murphy went home to Michigan. There, one day last week in the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, night closed over the career of the apostle of the dew and the dawn. Stricken by coronary thrombosis, Frank Murphy, 59, died in his sleep...
First there was Benny the Meatball, but he had run screaming into the night with five bullet holes in him. Then came "Bugsy" Siegel, but he died ignobly (of four rifle slugs) while sitting on a divan in his girl's house. After that, sad-eyed little Mickey Cohen became the undisputed boss of Los Angeles' gangdom...
...shoved into a small room with a half-wrecked stove and a barred window without panes . . . The temperature [was] below freezing . . . Occasionally a bit of bread was thrown in to me . . . Every [few] days . . . NKVD men would burst in at night and carry out a most careful examination of the cell and of my person [including] the long beard which had grown during my imprisonment and which was stiff from pus that had run into it from my frostbitten face. I was kicked and beaten on these occasions...
Prerogative. In Birmingham, England, Judge Richard Hill Norris, denying a divorce to a truck driver's wife, ruled that it was neither cruel nor uncommon for a man to strike his wife on the street on Saturday night...