Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Starting in late May, 100,000 U.S. servicemen were funneled into Viet Nam in 120 days. Warships from Task Force 77, the assault unit of the Seventh Fleet, launched round-the-clock bombing raids, trained their six-inch guns on Viet Cong concentrations as far as 15 miles inland...
With eight seconds to play, Wilson took a pass and drove down the lane past Sedlacek to put in the winning two-pointer. The clock kept running; at the buzzer Sedlacek tried a desperation 35-foot shot, which missed...
Punching the Clock. Biggest and newest of the nightspots is the Mikado, in Tokyo's swank Akasaka District. Run by a Korean "cabaret king" named Yoshiaki Konami, 54, the Mikado boasts an electric eye to open the door, a "dancing" West German water fountain, 1,250 hostesses in evening dress or kimono, and 30 Japanese Rockettes who bump and grind through Papa Don't Preach to Me in top hat and tails. Bare-breasted "Arabian" beauties alternate onstage with lion-maned Kabuki dancers. There is an exclusive downstairs party suite with 120 of Tokyo's most luscious...
...anyone they like (provided, say the rules, "that he is between 17 and 40 and in good physical condition") to dress in numbered jerseys reminiscent of the late Roller Derby. Thus properly attired, the delegates run down supermarket aisles like thieves, grabbing up goods in a race against the clock. The contestant whose champion has snatched the most valuable mer chandise in his basket returns the next day to meet new challengers in a game that may very well go on to infinity. "They originally tried it with the homemakers themselves running up and down the market collecting stuff," explains...
...mass casualty times, all Charlie Med personnel work round the clock; they have done so for as long as 48 hours. Then, even the dentists quit their cavities and turn to as assistant surgeons, working not only in the mouth, but debriding (cleaning, by removing dead tissue) wounds in any part of the body. Enlisted marines inevitably have made this the basis for a wisecrack: "If you're gonna get wounded, be sure you get hurt real bad or you'll draw a dentist for your doctor...