Word: nights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only wildlife that I noted around the hotel was the lizards. It was fascinating to lie in bed at night and watch them chase each other across the ceiling...
McNichols fought Brown's endorsement plan at heated, late-at-night hotel suite talks, again at Brown's breakfast. The West, McNichols argued, should form a solid Democratic front on regional issues such as reclamation, but not on a candidate. When Brown saw that his bloc would not be a bloc, he backed down, retreated to the position that agreement on issues was all he had wanted anyhow, thereby escaped the public stigma of failure in his effort for endorsement...
Utrecht sailed on to Boston, thence toward New York. At 6:55 on the last night out, Nita Spector knocked on the door of Cabin 7, called Lynn for dinner. The secretary replied that she was not feeling well. A steward knocked again at 7:05; he heard only quiet sobbing and left. At 9 o'clock Mrs. Spector returned to Lynn's cabin with the Utrecht purser. The cabin was empty, and Lynn Kauffman was not again seen alive...
...that the only alternative to total collapse was relaxation. Meeting in the industrial center of Wuhan, Mao and his satraps decided on their line of retreat. The communes would remain, but they would be "tidied up." Peasants would be "entitled" to money wages and eight hours' sleep a night, were even told that "individual trees around their houses, small farm tools, small instruments and small domestic animals and poultry" would no longer be taken from them. Red cadres were scolded for having been "overeager," and grimly warned to stop exaggerating production totals...
There have been no steel negotiations since Tuesday night when top leaders in the industry and the United Steel Workers of America threw up their hands in despair of reaching a new contract agreement...