Word: clockings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eighties saw radical changes in Harvard football: systematic coaching, organized practice, a training table, and faculty rulings. Games at first were not allowed in Cambridge until after four o'clock in the afternoon, and in 1885 the sport was placed under a University ban--lifted the following winter. In the fall of 1890, a Harvard team broke through and defeated Yale for the first time since...
That's been her diversion every four o'clock for three centuries of Cambridge afternoons. Her young men file in--Apathetic, Beat, Sad, Angry, Intense, or just plain tired--and she teaches them to be gentlemen, for gentlemen will save the world...
...class apart. They are amateurs with professional skills, willing to spend months -and every spare nickel-to create from standard parts a car so far improved over ordinary hot-rods that it can be opened up only at Bonneville. The drivers race not against each other but against the clock, on solitary, screaming runs through the timing traps on the ninemile, arrow-straight course. "These men aren't a bunch of scatterbrained kids like the hot-rodders who race around every town in America," said Southern California Timing Association Director Jim Lindsley...
...clock one morning, a Renault Frégate drew up before the main motor pool of the Paris police, and four Algerians jumped out. They killed the sentry outside, burst into the guardroom, shot three more policemen, then tossed homemade bombs into the depot's gas tanks. A few minutes later, the central police switchboard came alive with emergency calls from all over Paris. At Vincennes, a group of Algerians, attacking a munitions factory, killed one policeman and wounded another...
...Atlantic Line, which was formed in 1957, paid out $3,000,000 for the 28-year-old Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Scotland. The Hanseatic was completely refurbished (sixth deck, new aluminum superstructure, new stacks) in Hamburg's Howaldtswerke yard by 2,000 artisans who worked around the clock to finish it in six months...