Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...obvious contradiction between Ike's U.S. and the filibuster's U.S. told more about the outcome of the Senate struggle than any of the round-the-clock oratory or pungent rhetoric. The right to vote is so basic a right that the right to filibuster could not hope to stand successfully against it. And federal guarantee of voting rights would ultimately lead Negroes via the ballot box toward all the other equal rights that have been denied them...
...place, and there was plenty of o'erwhelming still to come. The Southern filibuster, aimed at blocking passage of a civil rights bill, had begun (TIME, Feb. 29). To wear it down, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen kept the Senate in round-the-clock session. In counterattack the Southerners kept their colleagues coming and going all through the night with regular quorum calls. Meanwhile Texas' Johnson was hard at work doing what comes most naturally: dealing, persuading, cajoling-all in an effort to shape a meaningful moderate bill whose basic purpose is to guarantee...
Nevertheless, SAC crews play their deadly game of Beat the Clock as if each alert were the real thing. And when they get the sign-off, they return to their moleholes to await again the sound of that eerie klaxon; it could come again in five minutes or five hours. Usually, though, the alert crews can count on enough time to clean up. "The only time you dare take a shower," says one pilot, "is right after an alert. Some day they'll fool us and blow the horn again just after we get back...
...minutes before 8 o'clock next morning, Raymond walked 20 feet from his red-shingled bungalow to the narrow country road, hailed a passing state highway department truck and asked the driver and helper to spread cinders on his driveway. After they agreed, Sharpshooter Raymond re-entered the house and opened fire. First he picked off the driver (his helper scampered for the woods, unhurt), then two women who were driving by, killed the mother and blasted the father and two children of a family driving down the road, wounded two other passers-by before state police arrived...
...Before long a flurry of blue memos pours from his desk to every department. Sensing the news possibilities in some current local development, Kirchhofer hands out the assignment. "I can't put my hands on the fish," he says, "but the smell is there." By two o'clock, with the help of 190 respectful and sometimes awe-struck editorial staffers, Editor Kirchhofer has produced an other issue of the newspaper that is as much a part of Buffalo as its 400,000 city-owned trees...