Word: clockings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev.--The United States ended its fall nuclear test series Thursday with a record underground blast that ripped a huge hole in the side of a mesa. The climax left scientists weary from days of round the clock effort to finish the series by the deadline time Thursday...
...Dinner. A typically breathless campaign day for Chamberlain began at 7 o'clock one morning last week, found him still going hard in the Genesee County town of Grand Blanc at 7 that night. He suddenly realized that he was already go minutes late for a dinner date with his wife Charlotte, even then waiting for him in front of the Durant Hotel, in nearby Flint. Chamberlain leaped into his red-white-and-blue Chevrolet station wagon, which he uses along with his trailer, and sped toward Flint at 60 m.p.h. His pace had been exhausting, but Chuck Chamberlain...
...clouds cast no shadows," and at her grandfather's Belvoir Castle. The plumbing there was not much, but there were "watermen" to bring hot and cold water along miles of corridors, watchmen to pace the battlements by night, and a "gong man," who served as a perambulating clock. There was even an ancient serving-maid who was born before the Battle of Waterloo. (She was always shown to visitors...
Bidding for its most important victory of the season so far, a hopped-up varsity football team will take on Dartmouth at the Stadium this afternoon. Kickoff time is 2 o'clock...
...sales were made, and the salesman below is just clinching a deal for one of his expensive turntables. Perhaps all the responses to the abundant music at the show are represented in the three attitudes struck at eight on our clock; manly criticism, feminine rapture, and middle-aged contemplation...