Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...published books and hundreds of articles, essays and reviews in some 70 leading newspapers and periodicals in England and America, I am today 85, well into my 86th year, and now doing my best work. For the past seven years, I have risen religiously at about 4 o'clock every morning and, during that time, have written at least seven books of poetry and prose. I am now at work on a book on Human Nature (a big subject), already in its 400th typed page...
...clock one morning last week, Common Market Commission President Walter Hallstein, unshaven and wearily ebullient, emerged from a meeting in Brussels to announce "the most important step in the history of the building of the community." With only a few loose ends left lying around, the Common Market had finally finished the work of creating a unified farm economy for its six member nations...
...Done Something Bad." The next night, after making the rounds of Skid Row bars, Speck holed up in a 90?-a-night flophouse on the West Side's Madison Street under the name of B. Brian. Around 11 o'clock, he shouted to his next-door neighbor: "You got to come and see me. I done something bad." The neighbor replied: "You go to hell." Fellow occupants heard Speck stumbling about and peered at him. Said one: "Hey! This guy's bleeding to death." Sprawled on a scabrous mattress in the 5 x 9-ft. cubicle, Speck...
More often, however, the targets are harder to find. The Viet Cong are masters of camouflage, and the canopy of the jungle that covers much of the land gives them excellent protection against prying cameras. To penetrate the cover, platoons of photo interpreters labor around the clock behind the electrically locked steel door of a special laboratory at Tan Son Nhut comparing pictures of the same minute areas, looking for the subtle changes that spell V.C. They are experts at their work. "I've seen them stretch film right across the room and then count the trees from...
Reverse Oedipal Tide. Most middle-agers do not fight the clock as fatally as Cash Bentley, but many try to turn it back. Some middle-aged husbands decide that not time, but their wives, are sapping their lives. This is the age of the domestic tirade, à la Virginia Woolf. The wife feels neglected, the husband feels nagged, both feel thoroughly bored with each other. According to Dr. Masters and Psychologist Johnson in Human Sexual Response, there is a marked flagging of male potency in the 40s, but it is not so much physical as psychic impotence...