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Word: clocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cambridge sealed its own fate when a pass to Tony Washington went out of bounds, giving Springfield the ball with :05 on the clock. Cambridge fouled the first man to touch the ball, Sean Rogers, who hit the free throw and ended Cambridge's hopes of retaining its state crown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Cagers Lose State Crown in Overtime | 3/17/1987 | See Source »

...getting on toward 1 o'clock, and still the essayist, who is given to idly wondering, idly wondered: Is it really acceptable to go to lunch at the Millennium Club? He casually asked a colleague whether he was a member, and the colleague said he had been but had resigned. That seemed very high- toned and impressive, but the essayist is not a member, and it would seem excessive to join an organization solely to resign from it in protest. The colleague then explained that his wife had given him no peace on the subject, and he valued peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Small Moral Quandary | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

...kids spend all their time in the government-funded Dance Barns numbing their minds on the music and the uncontrolled black market drugs. At home, the "oldies"--and the kids too wacked out even to crawl to the Barn--are watching channel 147, which plays an around the clock, brain washing mixture of snooker, music videos and government advertising. MTV may not bug you now, but just give it a couple years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRAIN LINT: | 3/11/1987 | See Source »

...referee called an ejection on UMass, resetting the shot clock. This led to Kyle Enright's game winner with only 28 seconds left...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Aquamen Down UMass, Look Ahead to Middies | 3/10/1987 | See Source »

Harvard lost two of its first three games--to Lehigh and Boston College--by a single point. In the B.C. game, the Crimson failed to commit an intentional foul in the closing seconds as the Eagles dribbled off the clock...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Silly Putty | 3/10/1987 | See Source »

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