Word: clock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only speak for myself, but I have spent a lifetime harboring resentment for the depiction of our natural resources here in northern Minnesota. As a small child, trains thundered past my house day and night, immigrants and sons of immigrants worked around the clock sending iron to the steel mills out East, winning the war, and feeling the pockets of eastern wasp parasites, so they could establish trust funds and send their sons to Harvard...
...clock ticked down the final seconds of the icemen's season, Clerly sent in his original Class of '85-his son, Billy Cleary, Captian Brad Kong Busconi Fusco and Greg Chalmers...
Richard Nixon will no doubt sleep more easily knowing that his new dog, Brownie, barks vociferously at the first sign of a stranger. After some 17 years of round-the-clock Secret Service protection, the former President has decided to drop his guards. According to a Nixon spokesman, the gesture was made to help trim the federal deficit. As soon as he hires a private agency to take care of his security needs, America's taxpayers will be relieved of paying an estimated $3 million a year for the three shifts of agents that guard him seven days a week...
...performers, not a religious retreat, and a certain amount of savvy was required. Michael Jackson, flu-ridden, was not in prime shape for a writing session with Richie. Jones listened sympathetically to his complaint, then said simply, "What time do you want to see Lionel?" Replied Jackson: "Ten o'clock." Once the song was written and everyone was in the studio, Jones did the chorus work first, then went for the solos. "I knew no one would leave for those," he laughs. "But they might leave for the choir part...
...frequently shelled the city; ever since, Basra has been in a state of decay, its population reduced to 1 million, its trade cut to almost nothing. Two weeks ago, Iranian artillery attacks against the town resumed and doctors at the Basra city hospital once again were working around the clock. Remaining residents stayed indoors, barricading themselves as best they could behind sandbags. The streets were deserted, except for a noisy wedding party that drove, incongruously, through the city one day singing raucously and thumping on drums. Every hour three or four shells came crashing in. "It's hard to sleep...