Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...children with ADHD, a ticking clock or sounds and sights caught through a window can drown out a teacher's voice, although an intriguing project can absorb them for hours. Such children act before thinking; they blurt out answers in class. They enrage peers with an inability to wait their turn or play by the rules. These are the kids no one wants at a birthday party...
...produced an envelope containing telephone records that could settle a controversy over the time of a phone call between Nicole Simpson and her mother Juditha Brown -- though Clark did not immediately disclose the contents. A coroner's report says the mother reported that they spoke at about 11 o'clock on the night of the murder. On the Sunday-morning talk shows, that point had been seized upon by F. Lee Bailey -- the famed defense attorney who is advising Shapiro -- to bolster the claim that when the killings took place, Simpson was at home waiting for a limousine that would...
...there is a tougher side to Panetta too. He has a ferocious temper that has been known to reduce aides to tears when balls are dropped or questions go unanswered. He insists on punctuality, and, as chairman of the House Budget Committee, once required all staff members to clock in and out -- an unheard- of regimen on Capitol Hill. "He wanted an honest day's work out of us," said a longtime aide. Another OMB official admitted last week that Panetta's criticism can be so withering that she sometimes takes "the long way around" the rectangular corridor...
...emerged as one of the pre-eminent stylists on the Net. "These things are little more considered than coffeehouse talk and a lot less considered than a letter. They're not to have and hold; they're to fire and forget." Many online postings are composed "live" with the clock ticking, using rudimentary word processors on computer systems that charge by the minute and in some cases will shut down without warning when an hour runs...
...decided to show all the games in a non-pay-per-view setting shows what kind of following soccer already has here. Thus, we should all boo and hiss as we see a local area sportscaster mocking the earnest Univision play-by-play man on the 11 o'clock news. Clearly, he doesn't understand what the World Cup excitment is all about...