Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Unidentified target approaching you at 4 miles, 3 o'clock...
...Unidentified object approaching 2 miles, 2 o'clock...
Polo, Everyone? There is the lofty insularity once betrayed by the Du Ponts when the company was approached with the idea of sponsoring a 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon radio program. The Du Pont people wanted none of it. "At 3 o'clock on Sunday afternoons," they said firmly, "everybody is playing polo...
...right mood. Through loudspeakers came the false notes struck by a small child practicing the piano. In one nook were three white hens, in another a gypsy fortuneteller. A green hose snaked through the various rooms, a bicycle hung upside down from the ceiling, an old-fashioned time clock stood guard at the door. With such zany flourishes, surrealism came back to Manhattan in force for the first time in 18 years...
...readers of the Virginia City (Nev.) Territorial Enterprise are no strangers to proposals in ornate Victorian prose to turn the clock back. Some time after he revived the long dormant Enterprise for a plaything in 1952, aging (57) Dandy Lucius Beebe, onetime high-society chronicler for the New York Herald Tribune, genially proclaimed: "The editorial policy of the Enterprise is benevolent backwardness-reaction against everything." Last week the enterprising Enterprise, tongue only half in cheek, declared that since the centennial of the Civil War is to be observed next year, it might be fitting to reverse history and have...