Word: clock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the clock winding down, the Crimson couldn't get a break and couldn't score...
Council members then bring up major concerns with the framework of this Judiciary Board, despite the fact that the proposal was brought up a week ago in council meeting and has been in the planning stages for weeks. Chairman Offutt, concerned with the ticking of the clock, bids them hold off until this week's meeting of the Committee on the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CCRR...
Lewandowski telephoned Hayward at 5 o'clock on a Sunday morning; her alarm bells were already ringing. "Steve was trying not to cry," she says. "I knew right then that Concession was dead." The cause of the fire is an uneasy mystery, though a sprinkler system had been disconnected in the cold. About all Lewandowski could tell her was, "There's been a fire at the barn. There'll be some papers to sign." He recalls with admiration, "She asked how I was doing. Katrina's smart, realistic. She understands the track...
...second time that Paul Laxalt, the Nevada Republican and personal friend of Ronald Reagan's, had spoken that day with Ferdinand Marcos, the beleaguered President of the Philippines. At 2 o'clock (EST) last Monday afternoon, Marcos telephoned Laxalt, who had visited Manila in October as a special emissary, with an urgent question: Was it true, as U.S. Ambassador Stephen Bosworth had told him, that President Reagan was calling for a "peaceful transition to a new government" in the Philippines? While the two men talked, Laxalt said later, it became apparent that Marcos was "hanging on, looking for a life...
...Manila it was after 5 o'clock in the morning of the longest day of Ferdinand Marcos' life. Before it was over, he would attend his final inauguration ceremony, a foolish charade carried out in the sanctuary of his Malacanang Palace. That evening, a ruler no more, he would flee with his family and retainers aboard four American helicopters to Clark Air Base on the first leg of a flight that would take him to Guam, Hawaii and exile...