Word: afternoon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...December, a staff member was raped in the middle of the afternoon in the Science Center. Harvard police reported that the assailant gained access to an upper floor of the building and held his victim hostage without being caught...
...December, a staff member was raped in the middle of the afternoon in the Science Center. Harvard police reported that the assailant gained access to an upper floor of the building and held his victim hostage without being caught...
...commemorate the 21st anniversary of the Soviet invasion, the government of Milos Jakes ordered riot police to scare off some 3,000 demonstrators who had taken to the streets of Prague. Wielding truncheons, the police arrested several hundred protesters, including some from Hungary and Poland. Warned the party-owned afternoon daily Veerni Praha: "History cannot be changed. It is necessary to know it and take a lesson...
...next day, Saturday, Sept. 2, while the German tanks kept pressing forward, Hitler made no response. The British Cabinet met in the afternoon and decided that Hitler was stalling and that Britain and France should deliver an ultimatum to Berlin at midnight, to expire at 6 a.m. the following day. When Halifax proposed this to Paris, however, Bonnet said the French military commanders needed another 48 hours to mobilize...
That very same day, I later discovered, my father -- a state secretary in the Foreign Ministry -- had taken part in a last-ditch attempt to dissuade Hitler from issuing the invasion order. In his notes my father remarked, "This afternoon is the most depressing of my life. Apart from the unforeseeable consequences for the existence of Germany and of my family, it is appalling that my name should be connected with this event...