Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quite sure what was now demanded of me, I just wandered around for some time. By six o'clock, troops had surrounded the White House, most bank windows had been broken, MPs were stationed at the major hotels to help satirized matrons into limousines, and a pall of gas was spreading haphazardly about the city. The whole affair came off as very South American. So this is what they've been warning us the universities might become, I thought. And then, coming across a book store that had also had its plate glass busted in, I knew I wanted...
...once, the Crimson offense executed flawlessly, and the result was a healthy 34-7 halftime lead. The only thing that could halt the Yardling onslaught was the clock: quarters were shortened from 15 minutes to nine in the second half...
...migratory birds fly south in the fall and north in the spring-often to targets that are continents or even oceans away. One theory holds that some birds get their traveling orders from the stars. Not quite, says Cornell Ornithologist Stephen T. Emlen. The cue comes from a "biological clock" set by the birds' internal response to seasonal changes in the length of days...
...before its completion. So Blankenship was fulfilling the Frank Champi role, and Denis Sullivan was Pete Varney. Six seconds were left, and the tension was unbearable. Interference had just been called in the end zone, and we had new life. A buck into the line failed, but as the clock ticked on Blankenship refused to fold, and got the final touchdown with four seconds left. Princeton was fired up, and it was able to block the point after...
Birnbaum is helped tremendously by the sets (unaccredited in the program), which are both atmospheric and serviceable. (The show really moves; it is the first time I have been out of an Agassiz musical by eleven o'clock.) Sara Linnie Slocum's lighting and Gail Steketee's costumes also contribute much to the production's dreamlike, hangover mood...