Word: nights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shepheard's Hotel glimmered palely in the Cairo night, and its veranda lights were reflected in the Nile. In a fifth-floor suite three-year-old Prince Nawaf of Saudi Arabia lay fast asleep. In the bedroom of a similar suite three floors below dozed the Begum Aga Khan, 52, a handsome Frenchwoman who was "Miss France of 1932" and is the widow of the wealthy Aga Khan, who lies buried 500 miles upriver at Aswan...
...night the sky over ten thousand villages glows red and gold with the glare cast by countless primitive blast furnaces of mud brick. In the fields lanterns as numerous as fireflies cast a softer light over "shock troops" fighting "night battles" to bring in bumper crops of rice, sweet potatoes and cotton. By 6:30 in the morning the clean-swept streets of the teeming cities resound to the chanting of millions of voices as clerks, factory hands and bureaucrats, all clad in blue boiler suits, perform the mass calisthenics that herald the beginning of another ten-to twelve-hour...
...rooms in the living quarters." Meanwhile, the miners' wives and teen-age children have been put to work running 40 new "industrial enterprises," including a cement factory. Logical next step at Yangchuan (and already in operation in some Red Chinese factories) is the "Saturday-night system," under which a married woman worker lives in a factory dormitory, is alone with her husband only on the odd Saturday night when she has the use of a dormitory room all to herself...
Scars of War. In the deadlock. Cuba increasingly shows the scars of civil war: food shortages, shots in the night, silent factories. Havana's flashy hotels echo emptily. Trains that used to go to Santiago now stop short at Santa Clara, in mid-island. Planes fly from heavily guarded terminals, the passengers frisked before they board...
...Manhattan chairwoman, tuned in on Beat-Generation talk in San Francisco. London Sunday Times Reporter Kenneth Pearson flew over to file a three-part series on the Broadway musical, West Side Story-inspiring the London Daily Express to fly the West Side troupe to London for a night...