Word: clockings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reading clockwise, and starting about nine o'clock, the show was staged in the lobby of the Hotel Touraine, and fashionably attended. There were of course dozens of salesmen and promoters eager to answer everyone's questions and there were some, like the young man above, who preferred to examine the equipment on their own. The binaural headsets went over big with the young married set, yet there were some, such as the Shavian gentlemen at about four o'clock, who found plain old stereo enough to keep them interested...
Dawn's Early Blight. In Naples, a watchmaker applied for a patent on an alarm clock for stubborn sleepers which, if not turned off after the first normal rings, starts an electronic tape featuring the continuous honking of a car horn, the prolonged barking of a dog, several pistol shots followed by a cannon's boom...
...Communist guns that ring Quemoy fell silent, the shell-pocked island exploded into industrious activity. Farmers worked round the clock getting in a belated harvest; housewives, blinking happily at the unfamiliar sun, pounded away at the backlog of laundry that had built up during Communist barrages. Off Liao-lo Beach an endless parade of vessels, ranging from huge, wallowing LSDs down to motorized junks, disgorged the sinews of war-food, oil, ammunition, spanking-new U.S. -made 155-mm. howitzers and replacement tanks...
...soon in my face if I didn't tell you. I am no longer the Vag I was; I am utterly unmanned. I have just been to class. Worse than that, I have, as a glance at your watch will inform you, been to a nine o'clock class...
...shown the kind of war he preferred to fight when at the Somme he lost 60,000 men on the first day of battle. In Flanders Haig bore out the assessment of British Military Historian General J.F.C. Fuller, himself a Flanders veteran: "He lived and worked like a clock; every day he did the same kind of thing at the same moment; his routine never varied. In character he was stubborn and intolerant, in speech inarticulate, in argument dumb...