Word: dial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twice-weekly chore with the big clock was a simple matter of starting the motor that winds its huge weights into place. As he worked away inside the tower, hurrying Londoners in the crowded Strand below glanced up as usual for a reassuring look at the great white dial that guided their daily scurrying. Auto horns blared their impatience at a moment's delay, exhaust pipes splattered with selfimportance, old friends called out greetings, and tardy law clerks beat sharp tattoos on the pavements with hurrying heels. In the cacophony that makes a great city, no one-would hear...
...handy 'rosary-counter,' [which] has a small dial with all fifteen mysteries. A moving needle points, compass-like, to each bead (or number, in this case) as you click the handy little red plastic button. So you're interrupted. Look! The needle stays loyally on the elusive bead. Not a mystery is allowed to slip through your fingers anymore...
...listed four clubs, Ivy, Cottage, Dial, Key and Seal that would be unaffected by the ruling. "They were closed to guests last night and can in no way be implicated in this outrage," he stated...
Self-Tuning Radio. For listeners who want to fall asleep to soft music on one station and wake up to loud jazz on another, Radio Corp. of America has marketed a new clock radio. Slumber King has a new control device that is preset to shift the dial and change the volume at the desired time. Price...
...Dial M for Murder. Ray Milland tries to murder Grace Kelly, but Director Alfred Hitchcock contrives his comeuppance (TIME...