Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the whistle blows at 3 o'clock in the hydrant factory, a redhead named Opie races away in a pickup and begins a second back-breaking job to help pay for the dream house he is building on seven lakeside acres of peace and quiet...
...dumped her self-promoting lawyer, who seemed to escort her around town in part to stay in the pictures, she has traveled incognito, and even spent the occasional quiet weekend in New York City. She still puts her telephone through daily workouts, calling her attorneys and advisers around the clock, and she's taken up knitting to distract herself from the endless talk shows about her case. Last week she went to California to see her father, and by the second day all the excitement over her desperate-to-be-normal vacation gave way to the buzz over Barbra Streisand...
...Longfellow House contains authentic period furniture--ornate candelabras, a Dutch grandfather clock from 1750, marble busts and portraits in gold frames--which fill musty rooms, spacious by today's standards...
...some parts of him sticking out--a box with a clockface, for example, its hands moved by the artist, whose legs hang out of two holes in the bottom like a pendulum. Inside, in the darkness, Ray would try to guess what time it was and move the clock hands accordingly...
Instead, the City Council decided to consider an amendment to the noise ordinance that would exempt bell and clock towers from the regulation. In response, the licensing committee removed the matter from Tuesday's agenda...