Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Down at the end of the room the library clock began to strike little needles of sound. Vag counted them absentmindedly . . . seven, eight, nine, ten. Ten o'clock. The idea sank in slowly. Suddenly Vag sat bolt upright. How could he have been day-dreaming? The specter of examination welled up in his imagination in all its horror. The smug fat text and the cruel purple type on the assignment sheet seemed to be deriding him with silent mockery. Vag tore the ticket stubs to shreds, clenched his teeth, and read...
...occupations of these TIME Perpetuals include lawyers (unsurprisingly, the largest group) bankers, educators, clergymen (including Cardinal Spellman), consular officials, members of the armed forces, a farmer, a retired blueberry grower, a clock maker, college professors, doctors, engineers, a textile manufacturer, a lithographer, a building contractor, a housewife-concert pianist...
...four Chinese Communist officials and their police escort were just 50 minutes late in keeping the appointment. Shortly before 10 o'clock one morning last week, they took possession of the office of U.S. Consul General O. Edmund Clubb in the spacious U.S. legation compound in Peking, precisely as they had said they would, seven days earlier...
...From the bridge came a shouted order. Tonning spun the wheel, hard. He heard the crunch of steel on steel. Captain Karl Hammerberg, hunched over a pot of tea in the officers' saloon, was thrown headlong on the table. He ran to the bridge. The ship's clock stood...
Brown picked up the ball on a bad pass, hit with a foul, and had the ball under the varsity's basket when the automatic timer registered the end of the game. Coach Morris jumped from the Brown bench claiming a discrepancy between the timer and the Blockhouse clock, and referee Roberts ordered the ball jumped at mid-court. Gerry Murphy took the tap and dribbled until time ran out for the second time...