Word: clockings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American officialdom, inured to the cold, classic ploys of bureaucracy, the 1956 wave of huddled masses was a strange but warming experience. In Vienna, the U.S. Consulate staff processed the stream of Hungarians round the clock; even Pennsylvania's Democrat Francis Walter, co-author of the restrictive McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, returned from an inspection trip along the Austro-Hungarian border (where he saw a rebel shot down) to demand that the U.S. quota of arriving refugees be raised from 5,000 to 17,000. The Army reached fast, far and wide to find GIs of Hungarian descent...
...clock Sunday afternoon a combat-loaded Strategic Air Command B-52 Stratofortress plunked down at Baltimore's Friendship International Airport after a history-making journey. In 26 hours it had flown 13,500 miles, from Loring Air Force Base near Limestone (Maine) to Goose Bay (Labrador), to Thule (Greenland), north to the Pole, south to Anchorage (Alaska), thence to Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Abilene, Tampa, Key West, Miami, Atlanta and, finally, Baltimore...
President and Mrs. Nathan M. Pusey will be at home at 17 Quincy Street as usual on the first Sunday of the month, December 2, from four to six O'clock, and will be happy to welcome members of the faculties, and others holding Corporation appointments, and their wives or husbands...
...Wednesday. By 7 p.m. that same day in Chicago, trucks were hauling bundles of TIME to the airport. The magazine went on sale at Los Angeles' International Airport at 9:30 p.m. Other copies were in New York for delivery at 3 o'clock next morning...
...bell cable had parted, but Cecil A. Roberts, Superintendent of the Department of Buildings and Grounds, reported that this last vestige of Official Harvard Time (now that the Memorial Hall clock is gone) will resume operations today...