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Under orthodox Jewish beliefs, students are not permitted to take exams on Saturday. Harvard Jews observing the prohibition may come to the regularly scheduled exam period and wait under the supervision of a proctor until sundown to begin the exam. The students are required to pay a proctor at the rate of $2.50 an hour during the waiting period and the examination...
Skeeter and his friends start down late in the afternoon to buy beer (hard liquor isn't sold in north Georgia after sundown because of the region's astronomical murder rates) and then stop to eat supper at the Brazier Burger. After eating Skeeter gulps down several cans of beer and begins to smile, "Gotta get loose, so I can daince ever' daince," he says...
Nasser gained immense prestige throughout the Arab world, and he quickly exploited it. In one Arab state after another, he engineered pro-Nasser takeovers. Nasser proudly called the coups "pageants of sunrise," but the results often did not last much past sundown. His agents in Iraq helped to assassinate King Feisal II, tried at times to topple Hussein in Jordan, and assisted successful revolutions in Libya and the Sudan. They filtered through so many Middle East capitals weaving plots that there were increasing protests. During a 1966 visit, former Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson told him: "Mr. President, the U.S. Government...
...which lies on the southeast corner of the Arabian peninsula, remained one of the most stagnant societies on earth. The 60-year-old Sultan decreed long ago that his 600,000 subjects should not own automobiles or attend cinemas. In the capital, Muscat, the city gates are closed at sundown, when the cannon booms. People must carry lanterns at night; flashlights are banned as too blinding...
...days ago Otto Preminger leaned back in time to find a previous rationale. He was answering questions for a small group of film critics, fans, maybe up-and-coming Premingers. A black student had just informed the Viennese-born director that the stereotype black roles in Preminger's Hurry Sundown (1966) were racist. "Nobody, NOBODY just sits there and sings spirituals when their house is being attacked by armed men," the young black man had affirmed. Preminger leaned into the microphone to reply...