Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...however, did not participate in this nationwide statement of unity and progress. As a conscientious objector to national policy, I refused to set my clock one hour ahead. Instead, I set my watch 53 minutes ahead, my clock 47 minutes ahead, and my computer's clock 37 minutes ahead. You see, I had already set my clocks ahead. And therein lies my problem...
...minutes ahead--so easy to correct for the "real time"--but to the far more ambiguous seven minutes ahead. In this way, I succeeded in fooling myself to the extent that I even began showing up early. Yet there were limitations on the system. Because I rely on my clock rather than my watch while in my room, I found that I was still consistently late to morning activities. There was only one solution: set-ting my clock ahead. Since mornings were more difficult for me, I attempted to compensate for additional tardiness by setting my clock 13 minutes ahead...
...waking up early for the 9:15 game, grabbing breakfast before the noon game, eating a hot dog and slushie before the 2:45 game, dunking my head in ice water before the 5:30 game, and trading stories with the other umpires at dusk before the 8 o'clock game under the floodlights...
...first installment of this joint venture, Leaders and Revolutionaries, will appear on newsstands on April 6--and on TV screens at 10 o'clock E.T. that evening, when CBS airs its first special. Other segments include Artists and Entertainers; Builders and Titans; Scientists and Thinkers; Heroes and Inspirations; and, finally, Person of the Century...
Apart from the television, clock radio, pants presser, wet bar, complimentary bottled water and chocolate truffles, no two bedrooms are the same. Some are hung with botanical prints from the Museum of Natural History, others with watercolor paintings...