Word: clocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such arrived last week. He is William Rospigliosi, of TIME Inc.'s Rome bureau, and you may recall some of his by-lined stories in TIME: A Clock For Fiumicino (Sept. 1, 1947), The Pope's Day (May 5, 1947), or the controversy over The Water of Arsoli (Sept...
With Smith hitting from the bucket on sneaks behind Adams, and Steve Davis and Walt McCurdy contributing from the outside, the Varsity started coordinating a bit better as the clock was running out. But the jitters, similar to those of previous games, came back in the last two minutes and settled any chances of victory...
Finally at 10 o'clock the flight was called; the students called goodbye to waiting parents and girl friends, trooped aboard. The heavily loaded plane (normal load: 21 passengers) waited, engines turning, for half an hour. The fog lifted a little. Against the urgent advice of the control tower, the plane snarled down the runway, lifted off the concrete...
...clock that night Egypt had a new Premier: tall, stocky Abdel Hadi Pasha, former cabinet chief to King Farouk and onetime Foreign Minister. Like his old friend Nokrashy, he is a strong nationalist and leader of the Saadist Party, is expected to push the war in Palestine and continue the clean-up of the Moslem Brotherhood...
...still bothered by two items of tournament atmosphere: the click of cameras and the spectators who jingle pocket change. "The change-jinglers," he complains, "always wait until you reach the top of your backswing, then there's a silence like a kitchen clock stopping. It wouldn't bother me if they kept right on jingling...