Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months he was locked in a windowless cell on the Dallas County Jail's Corridor 6-M. A "suicide watch" jailer looked in on him round the clock; a single naked light bulb glared endlessly over his cot. He could not tell night from day. He devoured all the newspapers he could get, eagerly sifting every line of print to find his name. He did crossword puzzles and browsed through dozens of books (Perry Mason mysteries, sexy novels, the Warren Report, an abstruse volume of erotica titled Virginity-Pre-Nuptial Rites and Rituals). He played gin rummy indefatigably with...
...quickly and decisively in a classic purge. But he did not, for Mao's purge is part and parcel of a far vaster dream that is contained in his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. It is the romantic nostalgia of an aging revolutionary who wants to turn back the clock. Mao moved when he saw that China had begun to show signs of the same mellowing of aspirations, the same desire for material well-being above ideology, that to his horror he had watched overtake Russia in the years after Stalin. Mao does not want...
...P.L.A engages in everything from road and dam construction to social services to making propaganda movies. A year before the Revolution got under way, Lin abolished ranks in the P.L.A., a hint of how far back toward some vision of beneficent anarchy Mao intended to turn the Chinese clock...
...queen of spades in succession. "Mary Queen of Scots had the same combination before she was beheaded," he remarked. "I know that one of my family is going to get the chop. I pray to God it isn't me." And there he was at 8 o'clock next morning, clambering into Bluebird's cockpit, clutching his lucky Teddy bear, Mr. Whoppit. Then he revved up Bluebird's 4,520-lb.-thrust Orpheus jet engine and shrieked off across the lake...
...also a bleary eye, for composers invariably slave over their scores until the last possible minute, and then Arnstein and his eight copyists must labor round the clock. It can get tedious, but at the rate of $2.40 a page, Arnstein is not complaining: his copying of Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra, for instance, ran to more than 2,500 pages...