Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rarely has a Supreme Court decision caused such swift, tumultuous reaction. Late one night last week, the gavel pounded and pounded again in the Georgia state house of representatives. Dozens of lawmakers were shouting: "Mistuh Speakuh! Mistuh Speakuh!" The clock was fast approaching midnight on Feb. 21, the hour and day of statutory adjournment of the Georgia legislature. But adjournment was out of the question. At stake was the necessity of readjusting Georgia's outrageously malapportioned U.S. congressional districts...
...Crimson matmen traveled to Springfield yesterday, guided by the hand of a fairy godmother that had helped them to two incredibly close victories in their last two outings. Unfortunately, the clock struck midnight on the way, and when they got there, the Gymnasts decimated all eight to walk away with...
...Himself. In an instant, he turned on an incredible finishing kick. "Go! Go! Go!" screamed the fans as O'Hara raced off to battle the clock...
...incessant noises. Sub urbanites are not much better off, and the remotest home on the range may lie under the path of roaring jet airliners -the same swift giants that carry a man halfway around the world in half a day, and throw his built-in waking-and-sleeping clock out of kilter...
Immortal Inspirers. Actually, the Pre-Raphaelites did not see themselves as holding back the clock. They were rather a band of rebels in a century abristle with dissent. Three young Englishmen founded the movement in 1848, a year of social revolution throughout Europe, eleven years after Constable's death: William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, none over 21 years...