Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clock trick seems to be a common gag employed by Harvard students. Bill S. Triant '99 tried to set his roommates' alarm clocks forward an hour, but according to another roommate, F. Edward Boas '99, his plot failed...
...story begins on the banks of Lake Erie, in Willowick, Ohio (pop. 15,469). It is the last Monday night in January, about 9 o'clock. City councilman Frank Suponcic is home with his wife Linda when the phone rings. Linda answers. "Hi, this is Mike," says the man at the other end, politely enough. Linda chats with Mike, figuring he must be a constituent. (As Willowick's longest-serving ward councilman, Suponcic has lots of voters calling him at home.) After a while, Mike asks for Annette. Linda tells him he has the wrong number. Mike apologizes and hangs...
Throughout the winter and fall, each member of the team must work out on seated rowing machines, where it's about man versus himself and a little digital clock constantly flashing times...
...TIME News Center on CompuServe will offer much more than the contents of this magazine. It will be CompuServe's primary gateway for news and current affairs, merging wire-service coverage of breaking news with headline stories updated and enhanced round-the-clock by TIME's correspondents. There will also be forums where subscribers can mix it up with TIME staff members, and online press conferences with celebrities, scientists, politicians, authors, government officials and other newsmakers. (To order a CompuServe starter kit, call...
Soon enough, the first-half clock was winding down and B.C. was licking its chops at the prospect of going into the locker room tied with Harvard...