Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tragic wave of student suicides-of 18-year-old Varada Bajulu who tried to kill himself by swallowing powdered glass; of Shankar Bhosle, 21, who hanged himself; of the lawyer's son, only 15 years old, who climbed the University of Bombay's 300-foot clock tower and threw himself...
...rambling, five-room Georgia farmhouse at 5 o'clock one morning last week, a fat (205 lb.), genial Southerner rolled reluctantly out of bed, downed a cup of coffee laced with bourbon, pulled on a shapeless seersucker suit, and started reading aloud to warm up his vocal cords. Shortly after, Channing Cope, 55, farm editor of the Atlanta Constitution (circ. 187,000) and one of the South's best-known and most influential newspapermen, ambled to an easy chair on his screened front porch...
...hands on the gilded clock stood precisely at noon when the court crier raised his sepulchral voice: "Oyez, oyez . . . draw near . . . God save the United States and this Honorable Court." Red curtains parted and into the hushed chamber walked the black-gowned justices of the Supreme Court of the U.S. Led by sad-faced Chief Justice Vinson, they took their high-backed seats, variously shaped and padded to fit their various curves...
...carrier-plane torpedo attack. It was 8:47 on the morning of the 27th before the Rodney and King George V opened up. Lamed and surrounded, the Bismarck was hit again & again. Destroyers and cruisers banged away; torpedoes hit her; her guns went silent. By 10 o'clock she was aflame and crewmen could be seen going over the side, but her flag still flew; she would not sink and would not surrender. Then, at 10:36, from only 2,500 yards, the cruiser Dorsetshire hit her with a last torpedo. Her colors still flying, the mighty Bismarck rolled...
Four years before he died, Franz Joseph Haydn sat down to compile a "Catalogue of those Compositions which I recall offhand having composed from my 18th year to my 73rd year." Among the many string quartets, concertos and pieces for a musical clock, the old man dimly remembered some 118 symphonies (latest scholarly count: 104) and half a dozen operas, including one, L'Infedelta Fedele, which musicologists are now sure he never wrote. Last week, however, Manhattan music lovers and critics alike pounded their palms over one he both wrote and remembered...