Word: clock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the Serbs, he pressed Western capitals for reinforcements. Washington rushed to comply, and by week's end the Pentagon had dispatched more F-117A Stealths, B-52 bombers, Prowler radar jammers and refueling tankers, as well as B-1 bombers, to give NATO enough aircraft for round-the-clock operations. Top brass weighed the risks of sending in radar-visible Apache helicopter gunships that could lay down a withering blanket of bullets and rockets against small concentrations of Serb tanks and armor. There was also some worry within defense circles about a dwindling supply of American cruise missiles. Defense...
...back we wound, without even a thought. It was only two days later, when trying to catch a train to a nearby town that we noticed that all of the trains were leaving two hours later. Hmmm. And then, like the final scene in >=The Usual Suspects,=wrong,=that clock is right,=it s a little fast/an hour/46 minutes off, we never changed it.<= And no big surprise, our VCRs are constantly blinking 12:00. Our Sisyphean car clock operates between nine and 11, treating us to an occasional accurate reading. While it seems easier to simply change our clocks...
...short, for most of my life, time-telling has been de-divinized. I find it hard to take being on time when there is usually so much variation between people s watches and clocks, often a window of up to 15 minutes. Rushing doesn t make that much sense if you are pretty much guaranteed that the time on your watch doesn t correspond exactly to your date s. If people are on time according to their own watches, does that make it O.K.? In reality though, at school, my internal clock keeps me on time. If I am ever...
Embarrassed yet? They said technology would simplify your life, and you believed them. Now your creditors can track you down six ways in a minute, and your boss owns you round the clock. You're a monkey on a chain...
...families together: once, when a child or other close relatives left the old country for America, family and friends mourned for someone they would never see again. Today, the grandchild of that immigrant can return again and again across a vast ocean in just half a turn of the clock. But the airplane also helped tear families apart, by making international warfare an effortless reality...