Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President and Mrs. Nathan M. Pusey will be at home at 17 Quincy Street as usual on the first Sunday of the month, May third, from four to six o'clock, and will be happy to welcome members of the faculties, and others holding Corporation appointments, and their wives or husbands...
...John Foster Dulles showed up for work in his fifth-floor office at the State Department, a tall, austere-looking man, eyes wary, mouth turned down at the corners, shoulders hunched, necktie slightly off-center. He sat down behind a big desk across from a big grandfather clock, surveyed a couple of portraits that he had ordered hung-one of his sideburned grandfather John Watson Foster, U.S. Secretary of State 1892-93 (under President Benjamin Harrison), the other of his uncle Robert Lansing, U.S. Secretary of State 1915-20 (Woodrow Wilson). On a small table within reach of his swivel...
Backgammon & Rye. Daily, Dulles got up at 6:30 a.m., bathed, shaved, read the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post (the New York Times and Herald Tribune were brought in later), began to maneuver through an Ellery Queen. Breakfast was at 8 o'clock on the patio, with Dulles decked out in sports shirt, slacks and the hat. At 9:30 Army Captain Edward J. Kamin, an internal medicine specialist who had flown down in the presidential Columbine with Dulles and wife Janet from Washington, gave his patient a checkup. At 10:30 Dulles' capable personal assistant Joseph...
Later in the week, firing squads through the island shot 13 more men, raising the execution toll to 475. "War crimes" courts worked around the clock to clean up "hundreds of pending cases...
Soon he is doing such a brisk business exorcising evil spirits that he has to buy his own fleet of taxis to ferry his patients over the rutted dirt roads. When Ganesh writes a book called What God Told Me ("On Thursday, May 12, at nine o'clock in the morning, just after I had had breakfast, I saw God . . ."), half the island of Trinidad burns with celestial visions. His Profitable Evacuation (approved by island authorities in the mistaken belief that it is a book on civil defense) becomes a bestseller. Ganesh tops his career by representing his country...