Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...strange that Jack Grant made a trip back to the car to bring a heavy third suitcase for Mrs. Grant to take on the plane. It was his own rectangular yellow rawhide bag. Only he knew that it was crammed with an ingenious time-bomb lash-up-an alarm clock, a bundle of dry cells, a packet of matches and a folded rubber inner tube filled with gasoline. The clock was set for 2:30 p.m., when United Airlines' flight 258 would be about halfway to San Diego...
...Voice's biggest technical problem: Moscow's furious attempts to jam the round-the-clock Voice broadcasts to Russia. U.S. monitors estimate that Russian jamming has been between 70% and 80% effective. Voice officials hope to do better when the new U.S. transmitters go into operation...
...could never have painted The Cry (a canvas bulging with Kafka-like horror which he did at 30), but neither could the young drunk have painted the Self-Portrait Between the Clock and the Bed that Munch did four years before his death. That picture of a human being cornered by old age would stand as one of his finest, freshest works...
...have news!' I cried. Mother looked up from the Racing Form. 'Yeah?' she said. 'I'm in love,' I declared. 'With a girl?' I nodded. "Thank God,' said Mother." A three-star side-splitter opens another chapter: "I was so exhausted after my amok that I slept around the clock. Although sleeping in this circular position was uncomfortable. I managed to put in almost eight hours...
...committee of the Sun-Times Newspaper Guild unit. The committee spokesman told Publisher Field that the Guild had heard rumors of an impending bloodletting, wanted to get the bad news straight from the surgeon himself. Replied urbane Publisher Field: it was no mere rumor. His money-losing, round-the-clock Sun-Times was an "economic impossibility," so he was planning to drop the evening editions and turn it into a morning paper. There was no point in arguing, added Sun-Times Editor Dick Finnegan; dismissal notices were being handed out at that very moment. More than 300 Sun-Times staffers...