Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...term "body count" is banned. Hamburger Hill is to be mentioned only by its metric name: Hill 937. Press officers also are sternly enjoined from referring to "the 5 o'clock follies," the name given by newsmen to the frequently fanciful official recitation of the day's events. From now on, the briefings will simply be called briefings...
...figures - farm women this time - may be simply three women on the way to the fields (see detail, page 57). But they might also be the Maid, Mother and Crone of mythology. The people carrying baskets of cherries move round and down like planets - or automatons on a town clock. In the distance at right, a sailboat drops downriver toward the gleaming sea (see detail, pages 54-55). "The journey is not ended," a Flemish proverb says, "even after church and tower have been recognized...
...radio disc jockey announced the second hour. It was like an alarm clock. Back to real life-the show's over. I almost expected a commercial...
...real horror was to be sleeping soundly about three-thirty or four or five o'clock in the morning and have the telephone ring and the operator say, 'Sorry to wake you, Mr. President,' and there's just a second until she could get Mr. Rostow in the Situation Room, or Mr. Bundy . . . Had we hit a Russian ship? Had an accident occurred? We have another Pueblo? Someone made a mistake-were we at war?" Few men, listening, could be so sure of themselves, or so hungry for power, that they would not feel a sickening...
...Christmas, and cartons of donated food arrive regularly at the San Francisco Indian Center, a social headquarters for the roughly 20,000 Indians who live in the Bay Area. Still, living conditions on the island are painfully primitive. The Indians are cooking and keeping warm with round-the-clock campfires and struggling to maintain sanitary facilities. But one Indian acidly observed: "It's still better than most reservations...