Word: nights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sipping rum for fuel, staggered across the Charing Cross finish line in mid-London 36 hr. 27 min. later, gasped: "Tell that to the marines!" The marines were serenely proud of his deed. Said a Marine surgeon: "We learned a lot. There were emotional stresses during the long, lonely night part of his march...
...Monat family took the 11:32 p.m. Warsaw-Vienna express, sped through southern Poland and Czechoslovakia during the night, entered Austria at the tiny border town of Bernhardsthal. Since the Monats were traveling on diplomatic passports, Austrian customs of cials merely passed them by. Arriving at Vienna's East Station at 2:50 the next afternoon, the Monats had ten hours to kill before their train departed for Yugoslavia. Some time in that ten hours, they vanished...
...Hitler's coming to power, Berlin police entered the flaming Reichstag building and arrested one Marinus van der Lubbe, a shambling young Dutchman and avowed Communist who boasted that he had started the blaze himself. Using popular indignation over the fire, Hitler arrested 4,000 Communist officials that night. The next night Chancellor Hitler persuaded aging President von Hindenburg to suspend all constitutional liberties. Communist Party gatherings and newspapers were banned, and the ban was later extended to the Socialist press. In the election a week later, Hitler's Nazi coalition won a Reichstag majority for the first...
...Lubbe did it alone after all. Der Spiegel pictures him as a warped idealist of more than ordinary intelligence whose strange courtroom behavior-alternately listless or roaring with laughter-resulted from "many months in solitary confinement, chained to the wall with a bright electric light burning day and night...
...personal gain." Peking sent what Indonesia's Foreign Minister Subandrio called "as peremptory a diplomatic note" as Indonesia had ever received. Alarmed, Subandrio hustled off to the Red mainland to talk things over. He got the cold shoulder. Roused from his bed in the middle of the night to see Mao, he was lectured like an errant schoolboy. Complaining to Foreign Minister Chen Yi, Subandrio was answered in "brutal and arrogant" language. Roused again on his last night in Peking, he was pressured into a joint communiqué promising respect for "proper rights and interests" of local Chinese, then...