Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time he bets he wins. Lana pawns her jewels to meet the ante. He wins again. Lana sells an antique clock. He wins again-big. She strips the flat. Dean is too plug-nutty to notice that his furniture is gone. With a grin that slits his throat from ear to ear he runs off to tell all his horseplaying pals about the bookie who brought him luck. They get all the cash they can carry and stack the packet on a three-legged lizard whose owner can't even sell it for dog meat. "Eighty...
...mankind's hour of choice. Or, more precisely, seven minutes to twelve on the Bulletin clock...
...sickness keeps him from admitting it. He can't take the risk of relating to people-only to clocks. Clocks he can start and stop whenever he likes, but people he can't control. One night he has a dream in which he tries to cut Lisa's head off with the hand of a giant clock, tries with all his might-and fails. Next day he says to her tenderly: "I see a girl who looks like a pearl. A pearl of a girl." She glows like a pearl. Then all at once Lisa stops bothering...
Inside the probe, a built-in timer had been programmed to turn on the mam instruments at the proper time. But that time passed, and no report of action came over the probe's radio voice. Then, 3 hr. 20 mins later, the built-in alarm clock got I second chance. But this time also it failed to awake the probe's instruments...
Though Landau was kept on round-the-clock artificial respiration, four times within a week his pulse disappeared and arterial blood pressure dropped to zero. Technically, he was dead. Each time, injections of adrenaline and strophanthin, and blood transfused directly into an artery, brought him back to a semblance of life. Landau spent seven weeks on artificial respiration; it was another seven weeks before he began to show signs of returning brain function...