They were preparing to head "into the arena" to demonstrate "the power of one night," and not just any night but "the most crucial single night of the campaign".
"I don't think my wife has had a single night of good sleep since that day," Xi said, referencing the early morning FBI raid.
In the single night of March 9th-10th, about 100,000 people were killed.
It only takes a single night of frost to kill off an entire generation.
Even a single night of inadequate sleep can cause daylong elevations in blood pressure in people with hypertension.
Whereas smoking causes ill-health in the long-term, a single night of excess can land a boozer in accident and emergency.
Perhaps he was mindful of an old adage repeated by conservative ulema down the ages that 80 years of tyranny is preferable to a single night of anarchy.
In a single night of fine dining, a dozen plot lines knot and unknot, including lovers' triangles and a mob power play.
Let them wheedle their way into your bed so you can get some rest, and you will be fighting them off every single night of their young lives.
Today, Ms Kiyoka, now 91, will join a small group of elderly Tokyoites and mark the death of her father and sister in the 1945 firebombing, which killed about 100,000 people in the single night of 10 March.
Passes to the entire festival will be available, but people may also buy a ticket to a single night of performances one of the promoter's clubs - the Music Hall of Williamsburg, the Bowery Ballroom, the Mercury Lounge and Terminal 5.
