Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...near midnight in the sleeping Bavarian city of Bamberg (pop. 76,800) when some oddball, armed with a bucket of white oil paint and bursting with perverse zeal, got to working on a great carved door of Bamberg's 700-year-old cathedral. In the morning, there for all Bambergers to see, stood a legend in German, sloshed in letters a foot and a half high: "Elvis Presley-My God." Dreamboat Groaner Presley was on U.S. Army duty some 100 miles from the scene of his deification...
...argued, despite a certain logical inconsistency, that undergraduates who are responsible enough to entertain guests in their rooms until midnight on any Saturday throughout the year are somehow possessed by irresponsible and irrepressible desires during the football season. At a university where intelligence is emphasized slightly more than football, it does not seem unreasonable to ask for a change in the Saturday night parietal hours in the Fall...
...normal Saturday midnight hours in the Houses were granted except for the particular House sponsoring a dance for the weekend, Masters might discover that the result would be something less socially disrupting than the general sortee by undergraduates into the Cambridge community which now occurs...
...Aalto remains a prickly individualist who drinks hard, works all hours of the day and night. Once while designing Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Baker House in 1947, he turned out the whole staff at midnight, for three hours paced the office floor without a word, thinking furiously, finally dashed off the drawings. Believing that "the Creator created paper for making architectural drawings," Aalto refuses to open mail, replies only to telegrams. Accepting a commission to act as a consultant to Helsinki's city planning commission, he insisted on a clause that the city fathers would not badger...
...since the proud midnight twelve years ago when he became Prime Minister of newly independent India had Jawaharlal Nehru, 69, gone through such black times...