Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them from Harvard. The race itself is modeled after an English style of racing. Because most English rivers (and the Charles) are too narrow for all the entrants in each event to begin at the same time, the rowers start at ten-second intervals and race against the clock...
...shown up for the observance, including teachers, students, nuns and visitors like Pat Wall. They listened intently as Sister Ann Ida Gannon, the school's president, greeted them: "This day will be a failure if most of you let it stop at 4 or 5 o'clock. Today is only a beginning." It was a thoughtful group, not one inclined to swallow any spoon-fed dogmatism. When a bearded teacher began to criticize "our corrupt society" and "our bankrupt electoral system," one woman in the audience objected quietly but firmly that she was there to protest...
Many Faculty members appeared to have difficulty comprehending his motion, but there was a quick look of anguish on some faces when Lipset, before correcting himself, suggested that the Faculty reconvene in half an hour. By this time, the clock was approaching six, and many Faculty members undoubtedly did not want to stay past the normal 6:15 endpoint of the meetings...
...only thing the Crimson couldn't do right was kick the ball out of bounds. With five reserve players waiting to play in the closing minutes, Munro shouted at his squad. "Kick the ball over the goal line to stop the clock...
...CLOCK we all assembled in the conference room of A-Building at Boston State Hospital. The boys all talked about how they would deal with homosexual advances and the girls about what to do in case of rape. I found I was assigned to ward O-2, which was on the notorious East Side of the hospital. I'd been assured by patients I knew that the East Side was a real horror-infested with big rats and mean psychiatrists...