Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...shouting "Play Ball!" at Ebbets Field, the whimper of a puppy. Last week, from Gibraltar to Korea, British soldiers & sailors were also hearing the sounds of home. A BBC overseas program called You Asked for It carried such nostalgic sounds as the chime of Southampton's Civic Center clock striking 8, the rumble of the Welsh express going through the Severn tunnel, the Dunstable Salvation Army band blowing itself "pink in the face beside the traffic lights on a Saturday evening...
...electric time clock, complete with horn, scoreboard, and remote controls, will be used for the first time in a basketball game when the varisty meets Boston College tonight. It was used at the wrestling matches last Saturday, after installation in the I.A.B. on Friday. Athletic Association officials have agreed on the need for the clock for some time and decided to purchase it last year. Among its features is an automatic horn which blows at the end of periods, set previously from a table on the floor by remote control...
...first place, you have to be slightly demented to make a fool of yourself in front of ... a whole crew of people who don't care a bit about what you are doing . . . Also you have to be a little nuts to get up at 6 o'clock every morning to go to work...
Next semester the station will bid its one o'clock listeners a musical good-night, but it is hinted that "Fair Harvard" might not be the theme...
Breakthrough (Warner) travels with a rifle platoon of the ist Infantry Division into the Normandy invasion, the hedgerow fighting and the Saint-Lô battle that launched the Allied blitz through France. From Twelve O'Clock High it borrows the problem of the commander who cracks under the strain of identifying himself with his men; from Battleground, the familiar roster of civilian-soldier types; from Sands of Iwo Jima, the technique of intercutting its scenes liberally with real combat footage and battering its sound track with thunderous explosions...