Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...action, bundled her bag & baggage to La Guardia Airport. Mrs. Knauff's attorney rushed an appeal to Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson in Washington. Jackson, one of the three justices who dissented when the Supreme Court tossed out Mrs. Knauff's first appeal, looked at the clock and dictated an eleventh-hour hairbreadth reprieve for the woman. "Bundling this woman onto an airplane to get her out of this country within hours after the decision of the Court of Appeals," Justice Jackson wrote, ". . . would defeat [the Supreme] Court's jurisdiction [and] . . . would circumvent any action...
...clock plane for Germany took off on schedule, with Ellen Knauff's baggage stowed in its luggage hold. But Ellen Knauff stayed behind, saved by 20 minutes for another chapter in her fight to stay...
...Charles. "I bring you a schoolboy," said Khai Dinh. "Make of him what you will." Three years later, Khai Dinh died. He was buried in a splendid mausoleum, at Hué; at the foot of his tomb lay his prized French decorations, toothbrush, Thermos bottles and "Big Ben" alarm clock. Bao Dai, who had come 'home for the funeral, was crowned the 13th sovereign of the Nguyen (pronounced New Inn) dynasty. He turned the throne over to a regent, and hurried back to Paris...
...telephone lines. Cities get along with three or four circuits instead of the 200 or so that connect comparable cities in the U.S. To make up for this lack, the Russians use high-frequency radio. U.S.S.R.-wide broadcast hookups, much needed for the Kremlin's round-the-clock pep talks, are sent out to local stations over the air instead of over land-line circuits...
Banging away at his typewriter, sometimes "from 11 a.m. till 2 o'clock at night," Lewis found the age of Grant becoming "incredibly real" to him. "Some days," he wrote, "it seems the only real thing in the world." He made endless journeys to coax new material out of aging heirs and yellowing documents, ended up writing 30 versions of his first chapter before he was satisfied. This week, as Volume I finally appeared, readers had a chance to sample the fine result of Lewis' hard-working devotion, but without hope of reading the rest of the story...