Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day he was back at work behind his big oak desk in a huge, paneled room in the Ministry of Defense. He is easily accessible for interviews, at which he does nearly all the talking-in French, with a rasping Turkish accent. Midnight strollers in Damascus often see Zaim's Cadillac, preceded and followed by armored jeeps and outriders, speeding home from the Defense Ministry to the dictator's pretty young wife and two children (she is about to have a third...
Pistol Packer. Last week Gould got his first real taste of the agrarian democrats' medicine-Chinese Communist staffers locked him in his office until midnight after he rejected their wage demands. Next day, when he wrote a story about the row, the workers refused to print the Post unless he dropped his "distorted" account and stopped "helping the bandit Chiang resist the People's Revolution." That convinced Gould that he could "no longer run an American newspaper in the American tradition," and he suspended the Post indefinitely...
Shortly after midnight, 76 sweltering Puerto Ricans and five crew members jammed into a reconverted war-surplus Curtiss Commando twin-engined plane at San Juan, P.R. The first passengers aboard grabbed the leatherette bus seats in the middle aisle. The late ones squeezed into bucket seats along the walls. Five infants snuggled in their parents' laps. Pilot Alfred O. Cockrill of Pittsfield, Mass., late of the Naval Air Transport service, took off, headed northwest for Miami, on the way to New York...
Some of the music by Americans, like Frederick Woltmann's Songs from a Chinese Lute and Bainbridge Crist's Oriental Nocturne, sounded fine but had little to do with America. But Robert Ward's Gershwinesque, midnight-blue Night Music and Ray Green's jiggy, jazzy, folk-flavored Three Pieces for a Concert were true Americana. Most impressive was Bales's own Episodes from a Lincoln Ballet, a dramatic descriptive work which carried Lincoln through his "Youth and Dreams," to "The Presidency" and "Fame Everlasting...
They opened the doors of the Old south Theater around midnight last Saturday and three thousand yards of seersucker rolled out. exam period ennui and a revival of the dozen year old Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers performance in "Top Hat" combined to pipe half of Harvard over the river and into Boston...