Word: quarter-hour
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...students below him. Had Mrs. Townsley and the Gabours not held him up, he might have had another thousand students as targets when classes changed at 11:30 a.m. Now, at 11:48 a.m., Charles Whitman opened fire. The 17-chime carillon above him was to ring the quarter-hour six times before his guns were silenced...
...serious condition, most flags flew at half-staff through the week. This week the flags go back to full staff as the university and the capital attempt to return to normal. That may take a while. The 17 chimes in the tower from which Charlie Whitman shot peal each quarter-hour, resounding over the tree-shaded campus and the mist-mantled hills beyond...
Laced Jackets. At 9:45 a.m., as Big Ben struck the quarter-hour and cannon boomed, a gun carriage emerged from Westminster Hall, where Churchill's body had lain in state for three days and nights. The coffin on the gun carriage was shrouded with the Union Jack, on which rested a black velvet cushion bearing the diamond and gold regalia of the Order of the Garter. More than 100 sailors of the Royal Navy-Churchill's favorite service-drew the gun carriage and its burden forward at a measured 65 paces to the minute.* Each minute...
Every seat in the library's reading rooms was filled by 2:15 p.m., just a quarter-hour after opening time. Library officials counted 1,000 people in the library at that time, and decided to call in additional help to cope with the crowds...
...third of the radio diaries may be blanks. This pulls down radio ratings and helps push time buyers to other media. Also, individual stations can be hurt. One Louis ville report showed radio station WKLO in first place (with 21% of the listeners) during one Monday-Friday quarter-hour period. WAKY was second with 20% and WAVE third with 18%. But when Richardson added the valid days from 39 Audilogs that were dumped because of flaws, WAVE climbed to 23%, WAKY to 21%, while the erstwhile leader, WKLO, slipped to 19%. "It is obvious," Richardson said, "that this could...