Word: clockings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cast their ballots. On the palm-fringed shores of the Indian Ocean to the south, British district officers took to dugout canoes to ferry the black metal ballot boxes up crocodile-infested rivers to obscure villages where natives would choose from such party symbols as a clock, a cockerel, a lion...
...deal was made at 3 o'clock in the morning in Chase Manhattan Bank's downtown office. After a night of dickering with Equitable Life Assurance Society, Shor's landlord and owner of the surrounding area, Webb & Knapp called in Shor, gave him his check. Shor, whose memory goes back a long time, told old friend and New York Post Columnist Jimmy Cannon: "Being paid off at 3 in the morning, I felt like a bootlegger. That's when the old mob guys used to do their business...
...Nine o'Clock...
...clock...
...Eleven O'clock...