Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aiken had wanted the Administration to make a special exception in the new program for dairy farmers, but Benson said no.) As the committee members closed in, Chairman Ellender, unable to conceal his delight, looked at Aiken and broadly winked. Not until almost 6 o'clock was Benson allowed to complete his statement. By then all but two Senators, after having their say to the press table, had gone home...
...preceded by a working-level preliminary conference. (Secretary of State Dulles had dug up the Khrushchev statement and passed it to Hagerty by telephone just before the briefing.) It was an item that President Eisenhower could (and did) use at his press conference. At 10:27 o'clock, only three minutes before conference time, Hagerty concluded: "That's all I have." President Eisenhower, already on his feet, replied: "Fine...
...protested that all their delegates had not arrived-ignoring the fact that many opposition Deputies were still locked in prison or hiding from the police. We waited patiently through all the delays and redelays until, after a new postponement, we voted to open the Assembly at 4 o'clock, whatever happened. What we did not know was that, by then, the Reds were in full control of the city's streets...
...clock one of us rose and proposed that the senior member open the Assembly proceedings. The "senior" was an SR Deputy, S. P. Shvetsov. He mounted the stage, accompanied by a bestial racket from the left that was to continue for hours. Mingled with the shouts and whistles were howls and yells, stamping of feet and pounding on desktops. The galleries, jammed with members of the Bolshevik party, added to the appalling...
Promptly at 8 o'clock every morning since Dec. 20, the painter and his helper showed up at the Harrison Elementary School in Washington, D.C. Without a word to anyone, they went to work on the outside of the building. No one knew the men's names, and when one staff member remarked that he had no idea that the school was up for a painting, the painter airily replied, "Oh, you know how the Government is." He worked even on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, and each night he vanished as mysteriously...