Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easy at first--many students will surely undergo severe withdrawl symptoms. Ambulances must be stationed round-the-clock outside lecture halls, and electro-shock therepy should be available at UHS. But if we all work together, maybe one day, perhaps even in our childrens' lifetimes, we will at last be able to walk fearlessly into a lecture and hear a professor say "Yale" in passing. With any luck, the only reaction will be the heavenly silence of a thousand undergraduate sneers...
Where the weatherman said I was pathetic on the 6 o'clock news. Where I made a name--a bad one at that--for myself...
Surrounded by a crowd of more than 50 students chanting "Scher he's hungry, Scher he's hungry," Scher ate steadily for an hour and a half, finishing the last chicken sandwich just as the dining hall clock read two. "The man's a miracle," said his roommate Adam H. Wolman...
...clock on a Thursday evening, the members of the choir are seated in folding chairs in their rehearsal room at Christ and Holy Trinity Church, Westport, Conn. Bruce Barber, choir director, stoops at the piano with one foot on the sustain pedal and his eyes on his singers. He is leading them through a 300-year-old hymn, and he is not happy...
Inside, the elephant seemed perfect, down to the last coat of beige paint on the last iron rosette in its immense barrel vault, arching a hundred feet above the floor. The minute hand of its floriated and gilded clock, one of the largest in France, which since 1900 had declared the time to generations of anxious travelers, now moved in sedate jerks toward apotheosis. The Manets were in place. From the bay of Courbets, dense and dark, impacted with reality, one could look across the nave to their diametric opposite, Thomas Couture's pedantic warning to the Third Empire...