Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...beech tree in the Forest of Compiégne beyond. A warm June afternoon sun beat down on the clearing and cast purple shadows across the avenue leading through the forest from the clearing to a road. It was Friday, June 21, 1940. At exactly 3:15 o'clock, German summer time, from a touring car that had stopped at the far end of the avenue stepped a small man with a catlike tread and a supreme sense of the drama that is history...
...Again. That night the French peace delegates were driven 52 miles southwest to Paris, through streets that were deserted after the 9 o'clock curfew, to a hotel where they slept fitfully. Next morning they returned to their tent in the forest clearing. General Keitel turned over the dining car to them, where, with five secretaries, they went over the terms article by article. Article by article they discussed them with Bordeaux from the tent. Article by article they tried to get concessions from General Keitel, who was courteous but firm. Late in the afternoon of the second...
...Fiihrer from German G. H. Q., "to express my most heartfelt greetings to Your Majesty." Signs aplenty had told the Italian soldiers that the hour was at hand. The hour had in fact been at hand so long that some Italians believed the chimes of destiny's clock were out of order. But last week the blowing hot and cold suddenly became all hot. All ships of Italian registry were ordered into neutral ports. A communique was issued warning that navigation within twelve miles of Italy, Albania and Italian colonies was "dangerous." The 1942 Universal Exposition was indefinitely postponed...
Baccalaureate Service: All Seniors assemble at 3:30 o'clock Sunday, June 16, in front of Holworthy to march to the Memorial Church for the Baccalaureate Service. Every Senior must wear cap and gown, dark trousers and shoes...
Meeting for the last time this year at 5:15 o'clock today, the Student Council will hear the reports of the year's activities and will elect the officers for next year...