Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Speaker ordered that the clock be stopped, a tried-and-true parliamentary move. Opponents of redistricting were in a frenzy. Macon's Representative Denmark Groover had a hasty thought: if there is no clock, it can't be stopped...
...raced up to the gallery, swung over the balcony, and holding onto the parapet with an arm and a leg, reached over, pulled the official clock from its place on the wall and sent it crashing to the floor. There, others cracked and smashed it. But proponents were rushing the bill to completion, and by 12:11 a.m., it had passed. "Mistuh Speakuh!" cried Chattooga County's James Floyd in desperation, "I think the tactics used here are unconstitutional, Communist, and everything else - and I don't like it worth a damn!" But he was on the losing...
Before the clock was stopped, stomped on and smashed, Georgia's Fifth District, a three-county area embracing Atlanta, was the second most populous in the nation. The Ninth, on the other extreme, comprised 272,154 people. State legislators from the rural districts naturally preferred to keep things that way since it gave their sparsely populated areas a tremendous voting advantage over Atlanta. As a result of the redistricting, the Atlanta area was divided into two districts, each with its own Congressman. The rest of the state map was redrawn so as to provide districts of near-equal size...
...Roosevelt Raceway management did all it could to make the customers comfortable. Crews worked around the clock to clear 7 in. of snow from the track and the 250-acre parking lot (at a cost of $10,000); 146 infra-red heaters burned above the seats, and low-pressure blowers swirled lukewarm air around the feet of the standees in back...
...cards--at 1 a.m. Those cards in the "definite" box (mostly belonging to freshmen, or pre-Thanks giving sophomores, according to recent RGA legislation) should be deposited in the "in" pigeonhole by 1 a.m., unless, of course, a girl has a special permission for a two or three o'clock...