Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...clock in the afternoon of Aug. 20, 1940. Leon Trotsky finished his tea and strolled through a door of his house into a grass-grown, flower-strewn patio. He wandered about, pausing now & then to enjoy that most bourgeois of bourgeois things: a garden, not for food, but for pleasure. Geraniums were sprouting from pots, roses bursting in bloom, chickens cackling in coops, rabbits copulating in warrens, birds twittering with sunset nervousness in trees that overhung the 20-foot garden wall. The trees cast flickering shadows across the patio. The sky over Mexico City was sharp, clear blue, with puffy...
...avail. At 10:04 they called the police for oxygen tanks and a Pulmotor. In six minutes the police arrived. For two hours they worked over the boy, until the county physician pronounced him dead. The osteopaths insisted on continuing resuscitation until finally, a little after 3 o'clock, they gave up. Walter Freiwald had died from too much ether in his lungs and brain...
Then M. Hamel spoke of the strength, the clarity, the beauty of the French language. The church clock struck twelve and a trumpet blast announced the return of the conquering Prussian troops from drill. M. Hamel could speak no more. He went to the blackboard and wrote in his largest hand: "VIVE LA FRANCE!" The last class was ended...
...white was the conservative blue business suit draping the lank frame of U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull. A long file of big beflagged cars moved slowly through the surrounding palm-shaded park, bringing more conferees to the red-carpeted entrance. By 10 o'clock committees were already at work in secret session, hammering away at the 56 proposals presented for consideration. Along the colored marble corridors, decorated with gold leaf and mahogany, moved other delegates, whispering, gesticulating, buttonholing passing representatives...
...have you got the time?" "Certainly, it's ten o'clock, ten-ten- tenel-tenel-tenel-temel-bolda-tenel-roulma- dodl-ten-temel-ten Ten o'clock...