Word: clocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many a farmer, market days begin at 4 in the morning when the wholesalers show up to buy for other markets. Retailers like the Gauthiers arrive later, and for them business does not get brisk until about 8 o'clock. Thereafter they are seldom without customers, who pinch and punch their fruit and vegetables and ask them to pull open the husks of sweet corn to make sure the kernels are full and firm...
Except for a family party in the evening, Grandma's birthday next week will probably be like other days. "I got in the habit now of waking up at 6 o'clock," she says. "I hear my son up, splittin' the kindlin' wood downstairs. I wait till I'm sure he's got the coffee made, then I come down about 7. I just eat a piece of bread for breakfast, then I carry some coffee upstairs, and paint. In the afternoon I take a nap so when evenings come and the young folks...
...clock it was clear that Maria was not going to die. Those who had lost their bets-their horses and mules and pieces of land to skeptics and Communists-cursed their luck as they turned away to begin the journey home...
...watching the destruction of Parliament," cried Radical Deputy Alfredo R. Vitolo. "Remember a whole generation was lost in order that we should have this Constitution," warned Raul Urgana. Another Radical shouted: "We want a reform for the people and not for the President." From 4 o'clock in the afternoon until 2:50 the next morning the opposition fought a futile delaying action. Then the bill was passed...
...alive. Last week, on the boards of its old stronghold, Manhattan's Palace Theater (which surrendered to the movies in 1932), vaudeville was the star at the opening of the newest U.S. television station, American Broadcasting Co.'s WJZ-TV. The first show, from 7 o'clock until nearly midnight, featured all of vaudeville's tried & true turns: a dog act, a comedy team of acrobats, tap and ballroom dancers, comedians, songbirds, straight men. Gus Van (of venerable Van & Schenck) did a tear-jerking ballad about the good old days; Ray Bolger danced a comic solo...