Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...slumbering New Delhi it was 3 o'clock in the morning. But in a house awash with books, fierce Indian masks, and a bicycle parked in the bathtub, an exuberant American professor-journalist had not yet finished with the day before. At the University of Delhi he had needled his Indian students ("Press me hard!"). At dinner he had depth-probed uncomfortable Socialist Leader Acharya Kripalani. Now, stabbing an ancient Hermes portable, he batted out another column for 15 newspapers from Bombay to Boston. Burbled he: "It's sheer expressionism. Sheer...
...Times. At about 11:30 he leaves his Northwest Washington home for the Times office at 1701 K Street N.W. There he reads his mail, follows up on ideas generated by conversations or by his reading, goes to lunch, returns to the office at about 3 o'clock. "I never make up my mind what I'll write about until then " says Krock. "I try to keep close to the news so my piece will be as fresh as the news story on Page...
Through a Glass, Darkly Sir: In your story on British liquor licensing laws [Feb. 15], you say that ingenious Londoners can drink round the clock. I tried...
...Please God, don't let it rain until I get my things in," cried the future Tennessee Williams. Warns Brother Dakin: "The clock is ticking loudly"; Tennessee had better find his religious shelter "before the coming rain...
Along with new hustle, a new diversity has entered Australian life. Staid Melbourne still languishes under the blue laws that turn it into "a Sunday necropolis," and in most of Australia strict drinking hours still produce a custom known as "the 6 o'clock swill"-which contributes mightily to an annual beer consumption of 23 gallons per man, woman and child. But it is now possible, in the big cities, to find a gas station open before 9 a.m. and a stationery store after 5 p.m. In Sydney or Melbourne, a man who doesn't feel like Australia...