Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headed for the bank; Cambridge Trust; got to make it by two o'clock. Got the time...
That night the government sent two motorized battalions rolling down the superhighway to Maracay, warned rebels to surrender by 1:30 a.m. At the air bases, hopes flagged fast. At 1 o'clock Major Carrillo and 16 other young officers took off for refuge in Barranquilla, Colombia, 475 miles westward; as a defiant-and unnerving-last gesture, they used Pérez Jiménez plush-job DC-4, with trusted Personal Pilot Martin Parade flying. Ironically, the attacking battalions paused part way at Los Teques and began going over to the uprising just as the airmen fled; when...
...said that in the recent snowfall 30 tons of sand had been thrown down in an around the clock operation. Last week's snowfall kept maintainance men busy clearing walks the entire weekend...
...glasses darkly. The most successful of the Parisian rock 'n' rollers is a 31-year-old self-styled gypsy who goes by the name of Mac-Kac (real name: René Reilles). A jazz drummer, Mac took to rocking after the U.S. film called Rock Around the Clock (starring Singer Bill Haley) caught the fancy of Parisian teenagers two years ago. Mac sang his way to fame with his gutty-voiced, absinthe-flavored readings of such items as See You Later, Alligator (T'es pas tombé sur la tête), and You Left in Your...
Each day, they reported later, the toughest hours to get through were in the dark of the morning toward 6 o'clock. About 9 a.m., when they would be most wide awake on a normal routine, they snapped out of their stupor to some extent. Most of the students went through spells of laughing for no reason. One was "happy and silly" for 45 hours, then became so depressed that the slightest irritation provoked violent argument. They forgot each other's names or substituted one name for another...