Word: clock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hearing continued for two hours, until the wall buzzer sounded and the stars on the clock lit up, signaling a roll call vote on the Senate floor. Kennedy recessed the hearing and walked briskly down the long corridor, with Secret Service agents brushing aside people ahead of him. Photographers, TV crews and aides carrying briefing books followed close behind. But Kennedy shed most of them at the private elevator for Senators...
...Ochberg, state director of mental health in Michigan: ''The same charisma in Ted Kennedy that stirs some people to the good, stirs other people to the bad.'' In September, Jimmy Carter ordered the Secret Service to guard Kennedy. They now watch over him around the clock, three shifts of five or six agents each, all identified by a lapel button and an earplug linked to a walkie-talkie. When traveling, Kennedy is usually accompanied by Aide Lawrence Horowitz, who is a licensed physician...
...fact, Johnson makes so few mistakes at left halfback that she seems to have an internal clock-like mechanism that tells her when to kick the ball. But the only gadgets that make her tick on the field are an outstanding field sense and a tremendous natural athletic ability...
...symbolized by a billion. The proof lies in those familiar tormented illustrations that writers cook up in the hope of suggesting the amount of a billion: the 125-mile-high stack of dollar bills that would add up to about a billion, the airplane propeller turning around the clock at 2,400 r.p.m. that would fall short of spinning a billion times in a year, the fact that a billion minutes ago (A.D. 77) the Christian era had scarcely got under way. Still, such efforts to evoke the actuality of a billion are far likelier to give the curious...
...score became 2-0 with 25:02 remaining on the clock as Harvard tallied a goal that might have been called "While Tigers Sleep." John Sanacore took a free kick from the left-wing and an apparently unmarked Michael Smith raced towards the far post to direct a beautiful diving header just inside the post...