Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wreathed smiles began turning to grim criticisms. Fellin complained that he and Throne could have been saved in five days, not 14, if only the rescuers had gone properly about their business. In turn, Pennsylvania's Deputy Secretary of Mines Gordon Smith, who directed rescue operations around the clock, leveled a blast at Fellin. "The miners in this operation," said he, "were removing pillars of coal left all these years to support a worked-out mine. Fellin showed he doesn't know all there is to know about mining by getting himself in this predicament." These contentions made...
Thomas Jefferson turned over one room to piles of animal bones sent back by the Lewis and Clark expedition. James Monroe imported great quantities of French furnishings, including the gilded Hannibal clock that still ticks away in the Green Room. Andrew Jackson, the "People's President," spent $50,000 removing every trace of aristocratic John Quincy Adams. Among the furnishings added by Jackson were $250 worth of spittoons. For his last reception in 1837, Jackson set out a monstrous 1,400-lb. cheese in the main entrance hall; the odor, it was said, lasted well into the next administration...
...great delight that the same music has the same wonderful effect on everybody. With this in mind, Muzak gets by with just three standard programs-Office, Factory, and Public Area Muzak. Office and Factory Muzak, each specially programmed, are piped to customers on alternate quarter hours around the clock. Public Area Muzak-a simple combination of the other two-plays constantly. Thus diners have their appetites involuntarily improved by the same tunes that increase the efficiency of riveters; ladies listening to Muzak through earphones placed in beauty-shop hair dryers have the consolation of knowing that their husbands are hearing...
When a final U.S. court decision declares an alien subject to extradition, the country that wants him has to remove him from the U.S. within two months, or else the ruling lapses and a whole new proceeding must begin. For P.J., the two-month clock began ticking in mid-June, when the Supreme Court declined to hear his appeal. Last week, with the deadline nearing, P.J.'s lawyers tried to delay his departure by taking advantage of his involvement in various unfinished lawsuits. Among P.J.'s down-to-the-deadline legal troubles was a paternity suit brought...
...wants to shout from the housetops; she fears that too much publicity about a coin shortage may make matters worse by encouraging hoarding. But in fact, pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and half dollars are all in short supply, though the mints in Denver and Philadelphia are working around the clock to plink them out, and the American Bankers Association has requested its 13,125 member banks to poke around in their vaults for any stockpiled coins that could be put into circulation...