Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...With nine completions and 147 yds., it wasn't his best day in the air, but the Buckley obviously had the offense in complete control. Calling almost all of his plays, he ran when he had to (twice for touchdowns, one and 67 yds.) threw prudently, and controlled the clock...
Bridgewater--The Harvard field hockey team ended its regular season on a dramatic note yesterday when forward Sue Field scored with only three ticks left on the clock to tie Bridgewater State...
...newsroom of The New York Globe stretched all the way from Forty-eight Street to Forty-ninth Street, a space of one city block, nearly two full acres filled with four long rows of reporters' desks...At deadline time, as six o'clock drove down upon the men and women, it would churn with action and the reporters would rock in their seats like the pistons of a vast, Teutonic engine screaming at maximum force. There were over one hundred reporters attached to the City Desk alone, and when their telephones began to fire, when their typewriters began to rattle...
Ronald Reagan's nomination by the Republican Party scared us; that he may become the next president terrifies us. A Reagan-appointed Supreme Court would irreparably damage civil liberties guaranteed in the Constitution, destroy the delicate balance of world peace and turn back the clock for social and economic justice. We are not willing to risk the gains of the last 50 years--and the values of peace, equality and justice--for a fleeting, fanciful wisp of a party and candidate that might never be heard from after November...
...angry exchange broke off as the candidates brought their campaigns almost to a dead stop while they prepared for the debate. For both it was a hair-raising risk. Earlier debates have turned on the most inconsequential factors: Richard Nixon's 5 o'clock shadow in 1960, Gerald Ford's gaffe in saying that Poland was not under Soviet domination in 1976. But those candidates had weeks to refurbish their images; Carter and Reagan will have no such luxury. Yet neither candidate felt he could pass up the chance to score a breakthrough and win that final...