Word: clocking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Still he did not know of the attack un til he heard the first bombs fall at 0755 hours on the morning of the 7th. "I thought it probably a maneuver, but rose and switched on the shortwave" to get the 8 o'clock news from Radio Tokyo. Twice during the weather forecast, the announcer reported "East wind, rain." That was the code signal indicating an attack against U.S. territory.* Yoshikawa immediately began burning his code books and other intelligence materials. When Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrived that day to pick him up for eventual repatriation, the only...
...afternoon on a Sabena plane. "I'm not at home to you!" screamed Welbeck, waving a red and white fetish stick in indignation. "Get out and stay out!" Already on his way to the door, Nussbaumer turned and shouted: "I'll be back at 3 o'clock to make sure you take that plane...
...Burst in the Chest. At 7 o'clock, 200 nervous Colongolese troops arrived and deployed facing the embassy. TheTunisians, equally jittery, eyed them in the growing dusk. At 7:40, Lieut. Colonel Joseph N'Kokolo, second-ranking officer in the Congo army started across the street with the evident intention of conferring with the Tunisian commanding officer. This was the moment Police inspector N'Gampo chose to shout "Tirez: [Fire]!" A French-speaking Tunisian pulled the trigger of his submachine gun; the burst smashed into the chest of Colonel N'Kokolo, killing him instantly. Both sides...
...First Lady's sister, M. (for Mabel) Frances Moore. Reminiscing about her own White House debut and other gay days, retired Bryn Mawr College Dean Helen Taft Manning, 69, relived a Christmastime dance of long ago: "Mother and father were oldfashioned, and along about 3 o'clock they wanted to go to bed themselves. So things came to an end. We didn't dance till dawn-which I would have liked...
...story has dramatic continuity and a controlled sense of authority, it is because the producers have hired an impressive list of expert writers, from Quentin Reynolds (The Battle of Britain), William L. Shirer (Berlin Diary) and Richard Tregaskis (Guadalcanal Diary), to Hollywood Scenarists Beirne Lay Jr. (12 O'Clock High) and Robert Pirosh (Battleground). And firmly but unobtrusively in the background is a suitably martial, original musical score written by Richard Rodgers...