Word: clocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BENIGN DESPOTISM. "I have the ablest staff that ever served any President in my memory. There's not a playboy among them. They aren't sitting around drinking whisky at 11 o'clock at night. They aren't walking around with their zippers unbuttoned." -Washington, July...
Three times in the second half U.C.L.A. fought back to tie-at 54-54, 65-65 and 69-69. Hayes broke that last tie with two free throws; then, with 12 sec. left to play, he dropped into the backcourt, dribbled the clock away to sew it up. Said Alcindor: "We lost to a better team." And right now, anyway, a better...
...clock in the morning, but Al Vellucci was still in fine form. "I'm sick and tired of playing; I'm sick and tired of paper; I'm sick and tired of blue-prints; I'm sick and tired of speeches. But I can stay here until five in the morning. I'm not a professional orator, but I can talk," Vellucci paused for breath and then sighed, "Let's get on with the City business...
...clock near the speaker's platform had just struck 3 a.m. when the haggard, dark-eyed figure shuffled into the meeting hall outside Santiago. "Mr. Chairman," he said softly, "I demand the right to answer some personal attacks waged against me." With that, Chile's embattled President Eduardo Frei turned to the 530 members of his Christian Democratic Party's national committee and launched into a plea for his very political life...
When you wake up and the clock reads 4:30, it can mean it's 4:30, or it's later than 4:30 but earlier than 6:30; in either case, you're out of your mind. Go back to sleep...