Word: clockings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five-jet fountain, holly bushes and a 40-ft. magnolia tree. But inside they found 14-ft.-high executive offices with cherry-paneled walls on which hung such moderns as Picasso and Clyfford Still. On the east and west facades were 880 huge aluminum louvers geared by a master clock to foil the sun from now until A.D. 2100. It was the museum's biggest opening night, and Director Cheek was delighted. Said he: "People came back thrilled and exhilarated. I hope we're helping make a handsomer world in Virginia...
First Caller. Sorrowfully, Alcorn got word to Adams, then off fishing in Canada, that he was wanted back in Washington. Adams knew that there was only one possible reason for his required return. He was back at his White House desk by 8 o'clock the following Monday...
...From a southern Formosan base, hardbitten pilots of Marine Air Group 11 were flying round-the-clock cover for Nationalist transport planes airdropping supplies to Little Quemoy. At night the marines used F4D Skyrays; during the day they relied on FJ Furies...
...Twelve O'clock...
...clock bells bring lunch at last, an end to auditing, and opportunity for the yet vacillating to fight an informed and final bout with the Official Register. Let not those with minds made up rest easy, however, for, as Scarlette O'Hara once observed, "Tomorrow is another...