Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Passing Buck. Driving through the green, rolling Piedmont country of Taliaferro County, a visitor can go for miles without meeting another car. The county seat of Crawfordville (pop. 786) proudly preserves the house of Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, and the white, four-faced clock on the courthouse cupola tolls the hours in perfect time. But even at high noon, Crawfordville has a ghostly air. The stores are empty. The moviehouse closed down years ago. The town dentist and doctor have moved away. This month a towel manufacturer talked of putting new life into Crawfordville by starting...
...satisfied if you look only to popularity . . . It is not enough to cater to the nation's whims-you must also serve the nation's needs. The people own the air. They own it as much in prime evening time as they do at 6 o'clock Sunday morning. For every hour that the people give you, you owe them something. I intend to see that your debt is paid with service . . . Never have so few owed so much to so many...
...isolated tornado or two is expected to occur from 4 to 7 o'clock p.m. in an area 60 miles north and south of Salina, Kans., running northeast to a line 40 miles north and 30 miles south of Kirksville...
...clock every weekday morning, a small, wiry man in a khaki shirt and faded blue jeans hurries across Los Angeles' San Vicente Boulevard, enters a grimy old commercial building, and climbs the stairs to a large studio. There, Painter Rico Lebrun finds himself in what looks like a cooled-off hell. The walls are lined with massive, tortured figures drawn on huge pieces of parchment. A decapitated man holds his head in his hands; an adjoining figure is riven from neck to thigh; a third figure turns slowly into a serpent. These, along with similar drawings on display this...
...problems are immense. The artificial kidney requires a battery of specially trained doctors, nurses and technicians around the clock to watch over it and its patient, is therefore so costly that it can be used only where research funds are footing the bills. Moreover, it is applicable to relatively few kidney disease cases. For many victims, whose disease is caused by previous high blood pressure, the method is no answer because their arterial disease is the main threat to life. But it shows that an artificial organ can substitute for the natural one for long periods. It will help researchers...