Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Szaro walked off the field to a roar. His 31-yard field goal had beaten Cornell 27-24 with eight seconds left on the clock and ended a very exciting football game...
...thoroughfare is alive virtually round the clock. Some moviehouses close their doors only four hours out of 24. Many of the sidewalk food stands never shut up shop, and the blocks on either side of Times Square offer a pungent cosmopolitan tour of cheap cookery-hot dogs, pizzas, pastrami, chow mein, hamburgers, tacos. Garish neon lights stare down on cameras, transistor radios and the other gadgetry that will soon be bought by gullible visitors or grace the lockers of soldiers and sailors who have been on leave in New York. Record stores blare their wares onto the street while teen...
...thinking in terms of creeping brushfires. He packed his car with some clothes and paintings. His visitors drove the car down to Jamul. After 8 a.m., smoke turned the sky to midnight. In gathering panic, Greene walked, then ran down the road toward the town, dropping the large pendulum clock that he meant to save. "I fell down," Greene remembers. "I had a flashlight, but I still couldn't see a thing. Sparks were falling all around me. I got lost in the chaparral. Finally I found a water pipe and followed it down...
...Fitzgerald, talent and alcoholism "have a common meeting point" with another disorder that may have a genetic source: manic-depressive disease. Fitzgerald's enthusiasms were nearly manic, and he was often depressed. "In the real dark night of the soul," he wrote, "it is always three o'clock in the morning...
...private party, around three o'clock in the morning, Styron experienced a sudden physical collapse. Perhaps this was due to his history of high blood pressure, agitated by all day tensions and whiskey; it may be that our guest had also stood in close proximity to minor clouds of Mexican boo-smoke. Whatever the causes, Styron sincerely believed himself to be dying. He declared himself able to see "the other shore," thought himself a visitor to some strange nether world, and, in general, carried on like a Baptist fanatic. Rescue squads and cops came clanging and banging stretchers and doors...