Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...cockpits are more of the wrappings of the cocoon: rigorously trained pilots with computers for brains and steel for nerves, whose proficiency is checked by the clock and whose mistakes-even minor ones-are costly. The planes they fly are machines of infinite precision, built and maintained and double-checked constantly to assure mastery of the laws of physics...
...President could hardly have been surprised that another big question at his news conference dealt with the state of U.S. defenses; his morning Washington Post headlined the plea of Air Force General Thomas Power, chief of the Strategic Air Command, for a round-the-clock SAC airborne alert to cover the years (1961-63) when the U.S. will lag in missile production...
...Where? The most ludicrous aspect of the licensing laws is the fact that they can turn a man into the most desperate kind of pub crawler: with a little ingenuity, a good map, and much patience he can drink legally around the clock in London...
...clock in Seoul's dim, drafty railroad station showed 10:55 p.m. last week as some 3,800 holiday travelers waited restlessly for the last train to Mokpo in southwest Korea. The train was already five minutes late because the railroad, under the press of crowds leaving Seoul for the Lunar New Year celebrations, had sold 2,300 more tickets than the 18-coach train could carry. At that moment on Track 3 underneath the waiting room, the engineer of the Mokpo train blew a long whistle blast to signal switch crews to add more coaches...
...Vanguardia's strange trouble began one Sunday last June during 10 o'clock Mass at Barcelona's San Ildefonso Church. Enraged that the sermon was being delivered in Catalan instead of Castilian, a plump, balding little man protested to a curate, left his card, and stormed out of the church shouting: "Catalan-lleno de mierda! The name on the card was that of Luis de Galinsoga, a Galician who has been La Vanguardia's Franco-appointed publisher since...