Word: quarter-hour
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Some doctors, however, refuse to schedule the quarter-hour appointments, saying nothing of substance can be accomplished in such a short period of time...
...told my corneas were extremely dry, and I should apply artificial tears every couple of hours. Then the surgeon was called in; he suggested I use the drops more often, about every 15 minutes. This wasn't especially practical for a journalist--no interviews longer than a quarter-hour and never mind the eye makeup, among other things--but I tried to stick to the schedule. It didn't do the trick...
...result was a working clock and quarter-hour chimes...
...Irvine at 6:45 p.m. for the two-hour trek back to Temecula, he eats his dinner at the wheel, tries to stay awake with a Larry McMurtry book-on-tape and finally, at about 8:45, after his 20-month-old baby is asleep, spends a quarter-hour with his wife and six-year-old son. "I keep telling myself, now, this is only temporary," says Cotton. "But it's been three years. My wife Jill calls herself a single parent." At 9 the lights go out at the Cottons' home, and alarms are set for next morning...
...defend the Ceausescus, told the London Times last week that the end was considerably less dramatic, if no tidier. After the trial, during which they refused to cooperate (Teodorescu tried unsuccessfully to persuade them to plead mental instability), the Ceausescus were taken into the courtyard. "It was a mere quarter-hour or so after the death sentence was pronounced," he says. "They thought they were walking to a cell, when suddenly there was a huge burst of fire. Elena and Nicolae fell head to head. Their bodies spun round, and they fell close to each other." The Times concludes that...