Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...annual New Year's retreat on Hilton Head Island in which an eclectic group of influential people swap stories of personal growth along with their business cards. Both policy wonks, the two men never heard a debate they didn't want to join, and tend to forget that the clock is running. "Just like the White House has 'Clinton Standard Time,' " said a U.S. News staff member last week, "we have Gergen time...
Like the ties between students, professor-student relationships were close. Richard M. Bloch remembers playing bridge with his mathematics professor late into the night. The next morning, the professor arrived late for his 10 o'clock class, whispering to Bloch that he couldn't see straight and that he would never join the students again. Richard K. Winslow recalls that his philosophy and sociology professor, W. Ernest Hocking, invited the class for Sunday afternoon tea once per month...
...witnessed WAVES drilling in our quadrangle; we saw some of our classmates participate in the communication program; we attended five o'clock socials with the naval officers studying at Harvard; and danced with busloads of service men from Fort Devans," writes Hermann, a part-time publications specialist from Bridgeport, Conn...
...group of 40 moderate Democrats, led by Congressman Charles Stenholm of Texas, who demanded a stiff cap on entitlement spending to keep the deficit under control. Liberals, led by members of the black and Hispanic caucuses, promised to bolt if Clinton gave the moderates an inch. Round-the- clock talks between the two camps were helping Clinton maintain a shaky majority in the House. But at one point last Tuesday afternoon, Stenholm suffered an attack of cold feet, and the talks broke down...
...Masako-san choose to enter this world? Around Tokyo, many young people speculate that the reason might be as simple as the ticking of the biological clock. She was nearing 30, late for a Japanese woman to marry and have children. And with the crown prince in the picture, very few men would be willing to court her. A more serious explanation is suggested by various teachers. It has to do with the fact that she is deeply Japanese in her outlook and that the call to duty, as well as the promise of love, was strong. On both sides...