Word: half-hour
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...slow−or you get one number wrong. Try again. A different sequence of numbers flashes on. Another miss. Better pull yourself together and concentrate. But you fail for the third time and you know that now the car won't start at all for another half-hour; it has sensed that you are not sober enough to drive safely...
...relatively small lighted numbers, memorize them, recall them, and punch them into the keyboard in a coordinated response within a few seconds. If he can perform these functions he is fit for the road. If he cannot−in three tries−the tester shuts off for a half-hour, giving him time to sober up before another attempt...
...rally-which was held in the Boston Common-followed a half-hour non-obstructive picket line in front of the State House. Chanting "Same enemy. unite." the predeminantly student picketers carried posters depicting two clenched same fight. workers and students must fists-one black and one white...
Students manning the booths raised more than $2000 to help defray the cost of an half-hour political message presented by McGovern and other anti-war senators last night...
...Atlanta. In a day when the networks dominate broadcast news, they have accomplished the near impossible for a local station: last week they won a George Foster Peabody Award for "a significant illustration of radio used to investigate and report on community problems."* Their prize-winning program was a half-hour documentary on strong-arm police tactics in Atlanta...