Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usual steady ball handling, and sophomore second stringer Bob Beller put the Crimson in front with a jumper from the corner. Weitzman tied it with a 15-footer. Williams was fouled and calmly sank two free throws, but McNaught countered with a 25-foot swishing jump shot, as the clock showed 40 seconds. That set the stage for the last-minute drama...
...clear, brisk autumn day in London, but much of the country shivered in fog and freezing mist. As darkness fell, housewives turned on their lights and electric heaters, started brewing tea and cooking dinner on electric stoves, snapped on the telly. Then suddenly, bang on 5 o'clock, it was New York all over again. The lights went...
...Evening Journal and liked it so much she never went back to the class room. Enjoying a well-known byline by the time she was 23, she joined a race with two other New York reporters to see who could get around the world fastest by commercial airline. By clock and calendar, Dorothy came in second; in the contest for personal publicity she finished first. The Journal was so pleased that it gave her a Broadway column and a free hand. No one ever edited Dorothy; when a copyreader once had the temerity to change one of her sentences...
...Wednesday, Harper phoned McNamara from Pittsburgh to surrender: Alcoa would cancel its price boosts. Lest the company change its mind overnight, McNamara called in newsmen for a 9:45 conference, acting so quickly that he had no time either to shave off his 5 o'clock shadow or don the blue shirt he always wears...
Elso S. Barghoorn, Professor of Botany and curator of the paleobotanical collection at Harvard, has apparently pushed back the evolutionary clock a billion years...