Word: clock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...predilection for neofascist ritual, beginning their closed meetings with the salute "Soleil, race!" (Sun, race!) and writing letters to one another in brown ink. In 1974 GRECE Member Yvan Blot, together with fellow students at the École Nationale d'Administration, formed the Club de l'Horloge (Clock Club), a lobby group that promotes many of the same issues...
...incongruous sight. Two miles offshore from the hotel-lined beachfront, two giant dredges toil away round the clock, scooping up tons of sand from the ocean bottom. Heavy, 27-in. pipes carry the grayish slurry to the beach. There it is deposited in large, neat mounds, until the fresh sand is spread out by large earth-moving machines. Under way for two years, the controversial $64 million project by the Army Corps of Engineers is aimed at nothing less than saving one of the nation's vacation landmarks: that fabled stretch of the Florida Gold Coast known as Miami...
...Debayle had commanded a bloody last stand fluttered the red-and-black banner of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.). Even the sounds were different Gone was the stream of anti-Communist propaganda that had once poured from Somoza's radio station. In its place came round-the-clock broadcasts of revolutionary songs and tributes to General Cesar Augusto Sandino, the legendary nationalist guerrilla slain by Somoza's father in 1934. Proclaimed an announcer: "The sons of Sandino are going to build the country that the general dreamed about...
...were Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne and Heather Bilandic, socialite wife of the former mayor with whom Byrne has been feuding before and after she knocked him off in a bitter and surprising primary last February. The confrontation took place when Byrne, who recently ordered an end to round-the-clock police protection for Michael Bilandic, his wife and their eight-month-old son, showed up at a block party in the Bilandic's Bridgeport neighborhood. Spotting her honor, whom Bilandic accuses of vindictiveness, Heather Bilandic rushed up to shake a fist in Byrne's face and scream...
...state motorists attending the Theatre can, whatever their license-plate number, obtain gasoline from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Fridays Saturdays and Sundays at the Honeyspot Gulf Station at 245 Honeyspot Road near Exit 31 in Stratford. Performances at 2 and 8 o'clock. There are free facilities for picnickers on the premises...