Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unfaithfulness by taking lovers. The lovelorn columns of the daily papers were filled with unprecedented letters from wives complaining that their husbands were "sexually inadequate." To the dismayed men of Japan it seemed that their women had swiftly shed the centuries-old virtues of chastity, submission and docility, turned overnight into Westernized harpies...
...Second Man, originally a short story, was based on a quotation from Lord Leighton, a British painter: "There is another man inside me, cynical, blase, critical." Behrman dramatized the story in three weeks while unemployed and casting about desperately for ideas; produced by the Theatre Guild, it was an overnight success, and Behrman has been a playwright ever since...
...streets to welcome them. But Cyprus still awaited the return of Makarios and of the Turkish Cypriot leaders to be convinced that independence was real and something to celebrate. On an island ringed with barbed wire and stalked by terror for four years, it was not easy to forget overnight...
Heaton finished the operation, stitched up the incision, delayed publication of the biopsy report overnight. The Secretary's immediate post-operative condition, he stated, "is quite satisfactory...
...Friend. Overnight, the nation's and world's fears mounted steadily. Why the delay in a report routinely quick in every up-to-date operating room? By Saturday morning the Walter Reed lab had made its final check. Heaton told Mrs. Dulles first. Then he told Dulles. Shortly before 9 a.m. the final word was passed to the President...