Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...morning they come by the hundreds down the valley, some on the road and some across the paddies. Around 8 o'clock a detachment of South Korean policemen turns up, and an electric change comes over the people. Now, as the police approach and halt them and order them to stand, and then to move on, they leap at every command with a livid and unmistakable fear...
...Manhattan living room one day last week, an eight-year-old boy, his eye on the clock, said: "Mummy, I want to see Howdy Doody." Obediently his mother went to the television set. As the screen flickered to life, the face that appeared was not the familiar, freckled countenance of the famous TV puppet, but the cold, clean-cut face of a man talking Russian. Said the little boy, in a voice foreboding tears: "I want to see Howdy Doody...
...ground-crew men had been tending the long, silvery B-29 like acolytes, running their flashlights along her vulnerable joints, pumping her broad wings full of 8,000 gallons of high-test gasoline, gently hoisting a dozen 500-lb. demolition bombs into her wide bays. By 11 o'clock pilots, navigators, radarmen, engineers and gunners tumbled aboard for a 2,400-mile training flight. With them went Brigadier General Robert F. Travis, the handsome, battle-tested commander of the air base and "old man" of the Ninth Bombardment Wing, to keep a sharp eye out for mistakes...
...Criminal Mind. In San Jose, Costa Rica, thieves broke into a chicken coop, carried off all the hens, left a note tied to the rooster's neck: "I was made a widower at 2 o'clock this morning...
Married. Bette Davis, 42, veteran cinemactress (Of Human Bondage); and Gary Merrill, 35, up & coming cinemactor (Twelve O' Clock High); she for the fourth time, he for the second; in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico (see PEOPLE...