Word: clockings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Life among the cocktail houris and their five o'clock shadows...
...condescend to invent a scene as clumsily conceived as the actual meeting of two spies in a Geneva street. One of them thus summarized his instructions from Moscow: "I was to be wearing a white scarf and to be holding in my right hand a leather belt. As the clock struck noon, I would be approached by a woman . . . holding an orange in her hand . . . [She] would ask me in English where I had bought the belt; and I was to reply that I had bought it in an ironmonger's shop in Paris. Then...
With the Stadium clock showing little more than two minutes to go in the game, the Bisons, who had driven from their own 20-yard line in an effort to score one more time, lined up on the Harvard 37 with a first down...
...meal, Joe stretches out on the parlor floor (which saves taking off pants and shoes to lie on a bed) for a half-hour nap to "let my eats settle." By 12:30 he is back at work. Ordinarily he stops at 6 or 7 o'clock, but in "pinchin' times" he often mans an after-supper shift, and the buckety-buck of his tractor can be heard until...
Only one night a week-Tuesday at 8 o'clock for The $64,000 Question-does Joe join the rest of the family after supper around the television set. Other nights he goes straight to his room to work over his ledgers or to study one or more of the hundreds of Government bulletins, F.F.A. information sheets, farm papers or textbooks that are available to him. On the wall above his desk are tacked the green sheets of weekly feed prices that he gets from a feed company. On a stool in his bathroom is a copy...