Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...from Eastern Europe, Communist North Korea has made impressive economic progress of a sort. Ninety-five percent of the peasants are herded into Soviet-style communes. Factory workers toil 12 to 14 hours a day for wages that average $21 a month in plants that often operate round the clock...
...industries use -or can calculate-rate of capacity as an output measure. Instead, they measure their output solely in units of production, e.g., pounds, carloadings, etc. If the auto industry used rate of capacity, it would be producing now at only about 50% of capacity on a round-the-clock basis-the same basis on which the steel industry computes its capacity. That figure would completely misrepresent Detroit's present fast production clip...
...Court House in Pemberton Square. It was a small and private affair at the beginning. "High Hopes" blasted uncertainly from speakers decorated with "Have a Heart, Vote Ward" posters. "You'd have to have a hole in your head," muttered someone. He was in the minority; by one o'clock about two hundred people were gathered around the emblazoned campaign trucks--a few of them with Kennedy, Ward, McLaughlin, White, McCormack, Driscoll, and Buckley ribbons down their chests...
...generates, is extraordinarily "stable." That is, its frequency (of approximately 1,420,405,000 cycles per second) is expected to vary less than that of any other kind of radiation. Like all regular wave motion, it can be used to keep time. The Harvard physicists hope their hydrogen clock will measure small intervals of time with 100,000 times the accuracy that is presently possible...
...conversion attempt, Princeton tackle John Craig came in fast to hit Bartolet's arm as he was trying to pass, and the ball fell far short of Jim Nelson, the intended receiver. The Tigers then ran out the clock and preserved their victory...