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...timer, gun in hand, was counting down the last five seconds of the quarter when Munro sauntered up behind him intent on the action. The timer, in turn intent upon his clock, reached zero, struck the gun out to the side and fired-directly into Munro's face. The officials refused the Crimson a time-out for an injured coach, and Harvard played a coachless five minutes while Munro received first aid. The crowd gave him a long ovation when, undaunted, he returned to action...
...three quarters; then Beatty turned on his blistering kick in the stretch, beat Grelle to the tape by 20 yards. Sweat dripping down his face, he trotted anxiously back toward a spectator who was holding a stop watch. "What did you get?" he pleaded. "What did you get?" The timer told him, and Beatty's face fell. "Somewhere in there, I must be relaxing," he worried. "That's where I'm losing time...
...mean go get a boy and clean it up right now . . . So Dave. I was downstairs, and there was a line at the cash register and only a part-timer to handle the traffic...
...begins, the early man stirs in his sleep on the kitchen floor, gets up and lights the grill. One by one the others arrive. The chef is a narrow-eyed old-timer who minds his peas and cutlets. The fish cook (Carl Mohner) is a burly young German bursting with aggressive force, manic charm, balked ambition and jealous lust for a pretty, flirty waitress (Mary Yeomans). The butcher is a steady boozer who loathes the "lousy forriners'' he works with and keeps squalling:' "Speak bloody English!" The vegetable cook is a soiled blimp who waggles her massive...
Leaving his car to be serviced, a driver goes into the glass-front restaurant where vending machines offer precooked meals, prepared by contract with Stouffer Corp. He carries his food to a quick-cooking microwave oven, presses a colored timer button that matches the color code on the package, and his meal is heated for the proper length of time. When the red light flashes and the bell rings, the diner, who by now feels a kinship to Pavlov's dog, gets his chow on disposable plates...