Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started in late November. The white frocked observers of the Hayes-Bickford Eating Place clientele noticed some tuxedos among the bearded loafers of the 11 o'clock crowd. Here, they thought, is something. Here is what we have been waiting for these long years. The Bick has ceased to be the symbol of the locusts' ravage, the turtles' quiet call. And swiftly they gathered back where the butterscotch puddings stand stacked in gleaming rows, where the untoasted English lies moist and soft in purple racks. We must do this slowly, they said, but inexorably...
...aged 14 to 17, living in a rickety 1936 WPA building. Most were sentenced to work on the reform farm for petty offenses such as stealing hubcaps, a few were allowed to stay simply because of broken homes and nowhere else to go. Each night at seven o'clock, they were locked inside their old dormitory by one of three key-carrying Negro officials. Thus they were confined one night last week, when fire broke out; the building was enveloped in flames before anybody could reach the padlocks...
...Fulbright, studied for a year at the University of Durham, and "lived in a genuine medieval castle, built by William the Conqueror. It had central heating that worked except for Sundays when they tried to heat the Cathedral, too; and there was a policy of 11 o'clock close-up that meant anyone coming home later had to scale two walls and a dry moat, then climb the castle wall itself. But there were plenty of cracks...
...this area would fly any Russian bombers trying to end-run U.S.Canadian continental defenses; through these waters would likely come Russian submarines slipping out through the Norwegian Sea bound for attacks on Atlantic shipping or coastal cities. For more than a year, the U.S. Navy's around-the-clock fleets of radar patrol planes and radar picket ships have been keenly aware of Russia's fleet of radar-equipped fishing trawlers cruising constantly in the richly stocked Grand Banks off Newfoundland. Last week, in a fast-moving action made notable by first-rate teamwork between White House, State...
...Peptic ulcer is common among the illiterate people of India, who are not bothered by decision making, clock watching, jangling telephones or traffic jams...