Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second play of the evening, The King of The Great Clock Tower, is the shortest and least satisfactory of the three. This selection is from a group of works which Yeats called "plays for dancers," an exceedingly condensed and ritualistic form which owes much to the influence of Japanese Noh drama. At first glance, this play would seem to be ideally suited for the purposes of the tiny Poets' Theatre, since it was written for intimate production before a select audience. But the difficulties of the play, which would probably remain obscure in the best of productions...
This is the story he told police: "I was walking up Nassau Street around 11 o'clock when I saw a bunch of guys walking toward me. They were pretty big, and they looked at me kind of funny, so I ducked into an alley to keep out of their way. They ran after me and stood around me in a circle. I asked what they wanted, but they didn't say anything. They just kept grinning at me. Then one of them hit me in the side, and another hit me behind the head. I fell down. but they...
...second half they began to move. With impressive ease, Iowa tied the score. Then, with three long minutes left to keep going to victory, the Hawkeyes quit. They simply ran out the clock and settled for a 21-21 tie. His boys seemed to have "run out of gas," as Coach Evashevski saw it. To 90,000 booing spectators at Ann Arbor, it seemed as if Forest Evashevski and his team had broken a commandment...
...emergency canals, lugged water on their backs to sprinkle 5,000,000 parched acres. In Honan, more than a million formed bucket brigades to bring water from the rivers to fields sometimes ten miles away. In Hunan, China's "rice bowl," 600,000 persons labored around the clock. In Shantung, all military units suspended drill and moved to the drought front. Thousands of schoolhouses were shut down, and in Honan alone, 800,000 students and teachers were turned into the fields...
...economics. Though a small car costs almost as much to build as a big car, companies would produce them if the market ever demanded it. But the U.S. public still wants its cars big-like its country. "People want big things.'' says Walker. "They want big clocks, for instance. If people have a choice between a big clock and a small clock that both cost a couple of dollars, they'll get the big one every time." As for chrome, Ford has offered a stripped-down series for years, but fancier, more expensive series outsell...