Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Modern Millie. The elevator opens--hopefully--onto a nondescript corridor. You pass a press room, then a secretary's office. The inner sanctum is a large room that, despite its heavy furniture, appears empty. There is an imposing mahogany desk, a matching conference table, an antique, roccoco grandfather's clock. The room is a flashback to a past generation. The beige telephone seems anachronistic...
...elevator would only allow three people at a time to come up," Sack explains. "The only thing different is that we don't have the guards he kept here. That antique clock, this table, that desk over there--they all belonged to Ambassador Kennedy, too, when he owned the RKO chain." Yes, Ben Sack, having acquired a Kennedy theatre, went on to inhabit a Kennedy office. Why, Norman Podhoretz couldn't have done it any better...
...forced the game into overtime when Kilkowski snared a pass from fellow midfielder Bruce Regan and tallied with only 13 seconds remaining in regulation play. The score capped a three goal rally that saw the Crimson fight back from a 9-6 deficit with about eight minutes on the clock...
...headquarters last September in a donated house, the Marists refurbished it with comfortable sofas and chairs; teenage volunteers renovated the basement, complete with pop posters, a jukebox, and pilfered street signs. Sessions for high school students are held three nights a week, from 7:30 to 9 o'clock; junior high students meet in the afternoons. The curriculum is as unconventional as the surroundings. Instead of following a standard Catechism, the brothers conduct freewheeling discussions on four basic human themes: "Self," "Relations with Others," "Relations with God," and "The Future...
...attacks. He puts them in the chamber for a minimum of four days (one man stayed in for ten days). The patient breathes pure oxygen under pressure for two hours; then the lid is opened, and he breathes ordinary air for one hour. This cycle is repeated around the clock. Of Ashfield's first 40 patients, only three have died during treatment and two turned out to have had both major coronary arteries blocked. These two were among twelve who were in cardiogenic shock (almost complete circulatory collapse), a condition that carries a forbidding mortality of 80% or more...