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Word: clocked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everyone perked up at this suggestion, and all four joined in. "We're a fixing to kill us a nigger-lover. Let's kill a nigger-lover." This on the main street of Selma, a town of 30,000, at 6 o'clock on a Saturday evening...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Southern Schizophrenia: | 10/7/1968 | See Source »

Remember that they do not know of the witch in their presence. Only Mark suspects--and finally discovers. Once, before the clock time of the movie, he lost a girl. (In the movie, she appears twice to his mind's eye.) Someone poisoned her, and when she left the hospital, she did not need him. His present girl, Elizabeth, came to him after her own poison trip. Very symmetrical, what? Mark uses both the past and the present caper to triangulate Diane Tremayne. Potions? Acid? Who is to judge the medium? "I made her see her soul," says the witch...

Author: By John D. Reed, | Title: 3 Sisters | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

Pneumatic drills and around-the-clock water pumps like the ones at the construction of Radcliffe's new Currier House could get even a Harvard man down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Around-the-Clock Construction Din Prompts Loud Complaints at 'Cliffe | 9/25/1968 | See Source »

Propaganda Ploy. While the North Vietnamese have long since abandoned round-the-clock shelling of the isolated U.S. Marine outpost at Con Thien just south of the DMZ, northernmost I Corps remains the area where allied officers consider the enemy threat to be greatest. Last week lead elements of the North Vietnamese 320th Division were back in I Corps after a June retreat north across the DMZ, keeping up the pressure in clashes with U.S. soldiers and Marines across the breadth of Quang Tri province. The Americans, joined by South Vietnamese infantrymen, chased North Viet Nam regulars two miles into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: A Time of Uncertainty | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

After two days of round-the-clock negotiations, the school board announced a settlement under which the ousted teachers would "not be prevented" from returning and any teachers dismissed by local boards in the future could appeal to arbitration panels. The union called off its strike-but the agreement blew up when the affected teachers tried to return to their classrooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Schools: Teacher Power v. Black Power | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

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