Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Washington's movers and shakers get home from a hard day at work and switch on CBS for the 7 o'clock news, they get TV's equivalent of the New York Times or Washington Post: a sober (if succinct) look at the day's events. Come next September, however, those viewers will have to tune in half an hour earlier for Dan Rather's report. Replacing it at 7 will be a different sort of news show, based on a different sort of newspaper: USA Today...
Near the end of Acomb's testimony, Sullivanshouted to her, "You came in here and told us youwere dying. It's one o'clock in the afternoon andyou're still here. I'm assuming you have an axe togrind...
Liotta: No. No, as a matter of fact, toward the second or third audition, they wanted to pair us up. I came in; they told me to be there at 11 O'clock or something and that the other actor would be there. And I couldn't imagine who it was going to be, because from what I heard, a lot of actors that you would probably know by name were very interested in this, so I had no idea who it was going to be. All of a sudden, in walks this little dog, and then in walks Amadeus...
...soon as the buzzer in the NCAA Championship Game went off, the horns in Philadelphia went on. Honk. Honk. The streets of Philadelphia were filled with the sounds of car horns and the shouts of people yelling from their doorsteps. It was New Year's Eve and the clock had struck midnight...
...thing the Army's "Be All You Can Be" advertisements never mention: the real job is to kill. Being in the Army is a holiday--"See Europe and the Far East for free"--until you have to punch the clock and go to work. Today, soldiers' faces stare out at us from front pages and television screens. The whistle is blowing. The coffee break is over...