Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flying on a project and did not come home by 6 o'clock," she has said, "I just knew I was a widow. I remember wondering once how I was going to greet the chaplain when he came to the door." In the years since, Rene has absorbed her husband's quiet fatalism...
Speaking "not as a Master but as a father," Finley stated that "surely one o'clock is amply late. It's ridiculous for young people, especially girls, not to go home...
...Critic, published by the College English Association, Teacher Foote reports that ness added to nouns, pronouns, verbs and phrases-a custom thought until now to be mostly whimsical, as in whyness or everydayness-has become popular among distinctly unjocose people. In Clock Without Hands, Novelist Carson McCullers repeatedly alludes to livingness-meaning, as Teacher Foote sees it, "the hum of hot blood, the buzz, the throb of passion," which is perhaps also "felt sappily by flowers and vegetables." Thingness, as used by Poet John Ciardi, "the sober Saul of modern letters," apparently connotes some ineffable quality of poetic words when...
...They're hanging from the chandeliers in there now, and we've scheduled a second showing at 10 o'clock," he added. The film dramatization of the book by John Reed '10 was directed by Sergei Eisenstein...
...disappear and then turned away dejectedly. "I've miscalculated," he thought. He looked around him and saw students with happy faces walking to and fro. "Strange," he thought, becoming philosophical, "life is going on as usual, but right under our noses there is something horrible." It was four o'clock, and the afternoon sun was casting long shadows; the Yard looked oddly serene. Two students passed Biff and broke his reverie by speaking loudly...