Word: clockings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost unbelievable to an outsider just how much time the gang members spend loafing on the corner. "Some of the guys spend hours and hours and days and days on the street corner," one gang leader said. "Last summer, some of them would get up around 11 o'clock, go up to the corner, go back home when they felt hungry, go back up to the store until dinner, and return after dinner to stay till midnight...
...alleging anything with real conviction, and by the time the alarm clock went off at the end of the game, most of the assorted journalists and hockey enthusiasts who were spectating had slumped into other, more fruitful pastimes, such as sleeping...
...runs West Germany as an iron-willed patriarch, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, hailed by doctors as a "physical phenomenon," turned 81, shrugged off the festivities in his honor because he wants to postpone such fun and games until he is at least 90. Straight and steady as a grandfather clock (he daily trudges up and down the 78 steps leading to his house on a hillside), Adenauer was absorbed in readying his campaign to preside in Bonn for four more years. Mindful of his twelve years of hostile uselessness under the Nazis, Dr. Adenauer is fond of saying: "I have already...
...kind of willing worker that Jenson had always wanted. Out of high school, he had a job as an apprentice welder, in the repair shop at Kennecott Copper's great open-pit mine, but he still had the energy to get up at five o'clock every morning and put in three to four miles of roadwork. He also worked out daily in Jenson's gym. After a year-long layoff to practice a different kind of fighting in Korea, Gene got his pro career under way in earnest. He came to New York last week, winner...
...headed for the Whirlpool Galaxy. Captain Dart watched the hand of the c-meter. It was close to the speed of light, and, getting closer and closer. He felt no change, of course, but he knew that his personal time was already running slow. Each tick of the clock, each heartbeat took months or years of earth time. How old were his friends on earth? he wondered. How long had they been dead...