Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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BACK at the table, Roger snarled at someone else who waved hello at him. "That guy goes to class," he said, "at ten o'clock in the morning...
...untidy, ungainly monster. Cables by the thousands pour in daily to the Pentagon, the State Department and the CIA, in time of crisis or relative calm. In the Nixon Administration, the departments and agencies funnel their foreign intelligence through National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger. At roughly 9 o'clock each morning, he passes a 20-page summary on to the President, along with special memos of his own. During the day, Kissinger clips vital cables and forwards them to Nixon, sometimes hourly, sometimes even oftener. The total comes to as many as 100 typewritten pages a day. When...
Westheimer: "He said the invasion of Cambodia will not affect the withdrawal of troops from Southeast Asia, that Nixon's withdrawal schedules will eventually be met. Someday that statement will be true like the stopped clock which is true twice...
...silent majority, but that would be crediting it with a species of integrity; the film is out for everyone's patronage regardless of taste or creed. Suddenly arguing for the dissenters, Bailey screams at the college president: "You can't hold back the hands on the clock; they'll rip your arms...
...Time Clock. Plastics contain tough carbon chains that are often 10.000 times longer than those found in ordinary molecules. Some scientists estimate that it may take a million years before microorganisms capable of attacking the man-made material can be produced in nature. Rather than wait, some chemists have infused plastics with chemical "time clocks": automatic decomposers. But there was no way of controlling the rate of decomposition, say weeks for cups, and years for auto taillights. Nor did manufacturers want a plastic that could disintegrate on the shelf or in a customer's hands...