Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Everybody concedes that Wagner dragged out can get unbearable, but even the clock watchers themselves do not agree on the important question: Is fastest best...
...Thorne living room taking notes, the phone rang. "Is this Mrs. Thorne?" asked a man's guttural voice. *'I have your boy." Wordlessly. Freda Thorne passed the receiver to the policeman. "I have your son." the voice repeated. "I want ?25,000 by 5 o'clock tonight, or I'll feed him to the sharks...
Precisely at 8 o'clock one night last week, the slight, heavily shackled form of 28-year-old English Engineer Peter Poole dropped through the hangman's trap door in Nairobi Prison. For the first time in Kenya's history, a white man was executed for killing an African...
...curb this tendency by running their fingers under each line, then every other line, until they learn the "whirlaway motion"-a series of circular sweeps down the middle of the page. In 2½-hour sessions (plus one hour of daily practice), they read faster and faster against a clock, get constant quizzes on comprehension...
...fishermen in hundreds of small boats hauled in one netful after another, the fat, red-flanked fish made the shallow water boil. Working two men in a boat round the clock, the fishermen collected as much as $1,000 apiece a day. Thus did the salmon come back last week to Alaska's Bristol Bay, one of the richest salmon-fishing grounds in the world, in the biggest run in the 49th state in twelve years...