| 单词 | like clockwork |
| 例句 | These, Bono illuminates for me in asides, and for the first time, I fully comprehended the magnitude of human story in our endeavor and the intricacies stashed like clockwork behind the regularity of our uniforms. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Planes were landing and taking off like clockwork. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z All through that summer the work of the farm went like clockwork.The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Comes for my recycling every week, like clockwork, all on his own initiative. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The hard labor of spring planting and fall harvesting is followed, like clockwork, by the slower pace of summer and winter. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “He takes one, talks his heart out for twenty minutes, and then falls asleep, like clockwork.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z She comes in once a month, like clockwork, for a trim and blowout. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Every few weeks it was the same story, like clockwork. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z This God created a world that ran like clockwork, with every plant, animal, and creature a cog in the great machine. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1951, I finished my trade school courses, and like clockwork, even though I wasn't a US citizen, my US Army draft notice arrived in the mail. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Dedd did not appear that morning, and since that one was like clockwork, we knew something was wrong. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the household went like clockwork and the shop had earned money for butter and butcher’s meat once or twice a week. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A minute later, like clockwork, the mail carrier walked up the porch steps. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Check-in and checkout usually run like clockwork: between 2 and 4 p.m. on the front end and around 11 a.m. or noon on the back end. You Can Check Out Any Time You Like 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Yet we grow in size, power and revenue every year, like clockwork. Why the marriage at the top of Politico couldn’t be saved 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z The book has a righteous social message, about responsibility for others, and a great big plot that runs like clockwork. Muted enthusiasm for Rowling book 2012-09-27T10:23:32Z While Glastonbury’s main stages run like clockwork – the occasional act of God permitting – the same cannot be said of its smaller stages in the Green Futures field. The Complete Glastonbury Festival Post Mortem: 30 Top Moments 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z His string of singalong albums in the 1960s and ’70s were mocked for their “anodyne and glutinous character,” in The Daily Telegraph’s phrase, but they produced gold and platinum records like clockwork. Max Bygraves, Jovial British Entertainer, Is Dead at 89 2012-09-08T22:15:06Z One wants to camp at a low enough elevation to be warmly ensconced below tree line, but high enough to cross the passes before midafternoon, when the daily thunderstorm rolls in like clockwork. I hiked the Colorado Trail for nearly 500 miles. I was awed by the mountains the whole way. 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Fall is definitely in the air despite being unseasonably hot, and like clockwork, my chocolate cravings are back. Taste the decadent, dark chocolate and strawberry pie my dad describes as a keeper 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z I mean, everything is like clockwork to me, from designated writing time, to spending time with my wife and baby, to going for walks. "People are actively, persistently racist": Poet Joshua Bennett on performative anti-racism 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z In three years, like clockwork, Mogwai will release another set, and they will be expansive, cinematic, and pleasant to the ear. New Album, Rave Tapes, Is Classic Mogwai 2014-01-24T16:33:36Z Their roller coaster story is dramatized with a theatrically shrewd obviousness that delivers the laughs, cheers and tears like clockwork. At the Ahmanson, 'Jersey Boys' puts another quarter in the jukebox 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z This happens like clockwork once every four years, to be fair. Can Cardi B and Bernie Sanders fix politics? Er … 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z They had this movie running like clockwork — each cliche carefully counterbalanced with an incisive comment on the absurdity of the genre and carefully meted-out doses of action and gore. Spoiler Alert: Why Everyone Is Talking About The Cabin in the Woods 2012-04-16T10:45:53Z And so do major fast food brands, who have been launching their collection of bucket hat merchandise like clockwork. Why are so many fast food brands obsessed with bucket hat merch? 2023-04-15T04:00:00Z And like clockwork, celebrities are showing up to make it known that they too, are very serious about the business of taking responsibility for failing to be adequately anti-racist. Black lives, white eyes: what's different this time is we're locked down and can't excuse it away 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z They'll be in it for the plot, which is big, engrossing, and runs like clockwork. The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling – full review 2012-09-28T10:30:01Z He used to respond like clockwork, but I think he’s over me now. Trump and ‘Doonesbury’: The Comic Gift That Keeps On Giving 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z I swear to god, like clockwork, it was Springsteen’s art director saying she had gotten the book and was really excited and wanted me to come down and shoot some photos. T Magazine: Asked & Answered: Danny Clinch, Rock Photographer 2010-10-13T21:15:00Z They emerge from separate doors on cue, not like sovereigns but like clockwork dolls. Critic’s Notebook: Inspired by Tchaikovsky in New York and London 2013-12-18T22:50:55Z In those days of unlimited confidence in a better tomorrow, perky ingénues still swooned into the arms of strapping heroes mouthing pompous blandishments, and happily ever after proceeded like clockwork. Music Review: ?Best of Lerner and Loewe,? at Carnegie Hall 2010-04-20T22:14:00Z "When my last movie 'UHF' came out in 1989, I made a solemn vow to my fans that I would release a major motion picture every 33 years, like clockwork," Yankovic said in a statement. Al Yankovic gets the "weird" biopic he deserves, with the perfect actor to play him 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z Chase said it "ran like clockwork," while Lai called it a "joyous experience." Inside look at the recording of 'Cinderella' CD 2013-05-07T12:16:11Z All these moving pieces meshed like clockwork upon release. How Tim Burton’s ‘Batman’ radically changed the superhero-movie landscape 30 years ago 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Everything runs like clockwork in Switzerland — including the Fête des Vignerons, though its timetable is considerably extended. 52 Places to Go in 2019 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z It delivers queasy thrills like clockwork and contains several neat twists in the relationship among the two male kidnappers and their female victim. Film: The Tribeca Film Festival?s Cinemania Series Has Dark Treasures 2010-04-22T22:56:00Z Every day around lunchtime, like clockwork, I dig in there for sandwich ingredients only to find mysterious tinfoil-wrapped fruits and vegetables. 5 best tools to help you upgrade your lunch game, according to our editors 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z I am the daughter of a “holiday man,” a term my grandmother used to describe three generations of our family’s absentee fathers who, like clockwork, would return around Christmas before disappearing again to whereabouts unknown. The Gift of the Missing Men 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Things move like clockwork until they encounter a chasm separating them from a chewable paradise. 1 Reel Film Festival shorts unspool | Bumbershoot 2013 2013-08-29T05:35:06Z But a different problem arises like clockwork at the film’s 25-minute mark: The members of the group awaken one morning to find their tent, shoes and guns gone. ‘Preservation,’ Christopher Denham’s New Thriller 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z But it's a bold and imaginative show that, with time and tinkering, should run like clockwork. The Mouse and His Child – review 2012-11-30T12:38:56Z Here, a terrorist attack in another country becomes a sound bite at an American pop star’s news conference and, like clockwork, fuels a scandal, a bleakly familiar transformation of news into a show. ‘Vox Lux’ Review: An Apocalyptic Star Is Born 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z And it is heartbreaking and nauseating to watch the system, like clockwork, fix its mussed hair, straighten its tie, and go right back to its old table at Cipriani. Ronan Farrow's high-wire act: Why it matters that "Catch and Kill" is such a page-turner 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z She starts moving on with her life and like clockwork he starts missing her: Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Walk away from a fat-shamer. It’s the best kind of exercise. 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z And in the America of “The Wire,” messed up things happen over and over like clockwork, and no one ever does differently because it’s just how things are done. ‘The Wire’ Stands Alone 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z They come running out, they've got the defibrillator, and a portable cardiac thing, they cut open his shirt, they defibrillate him, it's like clockwork. Dustin Hoffman: facing down my demons 2012-12-14T23:00:18Z No car rental, no getting lost, no searching for bathrooms — and Swiss trains run like clockwork. Bypassing vacation headaches with travel passes 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z "He ordered a large hot coffee with cream and sugar and a sausage egg and cheese croissant, it was like clockwork every day," Sugar told KWTV. Oklahoma couple weds in Dunkin' drive-thru where they first met 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z What that means is an occasion-attentive card-sender will send cards like clockwork, while the people who aren’t as caught up in special occasions or greeting cards will send them . . . sometimes, when they remember. Carolyn Hax: Mom wants to feel appreciated, but not with a group card 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Every year in early November, like clockwork, we'd hear the rumblings. How I found Christmas again in Grandma Ruth's peanut butter balls 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z Water still leaks through the plastered walls on the first floor, and ladybugs and old flies resurrect like clockwork in the windowsills of their unused second floor with the thaw of each spring. "Dear Father" letters and DNA tests 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z With the momentum of a movie series that sees installments arriving like clockwork every year, "Eclipse" looks primed to be the most successful film yet in Summit Entertainment's franchise upon its Wednesday release. "Twilight" finally hits its stride with third film 2010-06-28T05:27:00Z Thirty years ago, in his classroom, political scientist Robert Lieberman described the American system as an intricate mechanism that, like clockwork, restrained extremism and nudged the nation toward moderation, consensus and incrementalism. The Jan. 6th hearings: Was the finale just the beginning? 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z The show runs like clockwork – lots of mini-dramas made big, absolute choices to be made and Adjey to the rescue in the third act. Tonight's TV highlights 2010-10-06T06:59:00Z And like clockwork, news broke out that the $3.99 Korean rolls were slowly selling out before they were officially declared out of stock until at least October. Trader Joe’s popular kimbap sold out fast. Here’s how to make it from the comfort of your own home 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z They get in serious trouble like clockwork, grinning and joking their way through every second. “Playing House” gets serious — and keeps us laughing 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z McCaskill agreed, suggesting the possibility of using the annual Defense Authorization Legislation, which moves through Congress annually "like clockwork," to eliminate "legislative handcuffs." US embassy cables: Indian concern over security in Afghanistan 2010-12-16T21:30:34Z And we were in a deep, dark place and things weren't going like clockwork at all. Heavy new QOTSA album looks at life after death 2013-06-03T15:25:08Z And, like clockwork, Americans everywhere began to wonder whether someone is chopping onions somewhere, because anyone who wasn’t ugly-crying by the end of this commercial might be a robot. Super Bowl commercials still sassy, but a little more classy as sexism fades in 2015 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z I told her to stop wasting our time, but she was so intense: “I am looking at your flyer and I’m telling you I see him every morning like clockwork.” Experience: I lost my dog for nine months 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z That said, at its heart the piece is a sincere, well-intended contrivance that gets its laughs like clockwork but isn’t exactly unfamiliar. 'Washer/Dryer' needs less softener, more starch 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z It used to be like clockwork in the book business: first the hardcover edition was released, then, about one year later, the paperback. Paperback Publishers Quicken Their Pace 2011-07-26T22:00:22Z This is fanboy/girl stuff – think the Big Bang Theory's desperate nerds – hitting the marketplace just as, 10-days after release, the furore was beginning to fade; and, like clockwork, attention reignites. Django Unchained: is its portrayal of slavery too flippant? 2013-01-10T21:00:04Z And of course the Vikings would then break the ceasefire like clockwork the very next turn. From Civilization to Big Brother: how a game recreated Orwell's 1984 2012-06-13T11:55:34Z The show as a whole ran like clockwork, without any significant gaffes but also no particularly memorable outbreaks of emotion or eccentricity. Review: Hope and Restraint at the Tonys. Then Came Robert De Niro. 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Alternating like clockwork between live numbers and soft insight dulls the film’s rhythm, diminishing the excitement it’s going for as it counts down the days to showtime. ‘Justin Bieber: Our World’ Review: A Pop Star Enshrouded 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Then, like clockwork, Joel goes to the movies while Zöe handles the installation. Peek Inside Zöe and Joel Dictrow’s Art-Filled Home 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Hearing it is probably the best part about the formulaic “Drenched,” which maintains a static quality even as it progresses like clockwork, or a dripping faucet, from one scene to the next. Dance Review: Luke Murphy Performs His ‘Drenched’ at La MaMa 2013-07-07T21:19:11Z Every morning, like clockwork, Austin would start Maggie’s day off with a fact about the town she was visiting, such as the town’s motto or nickname. Country star Maggie Rose finds her own love story in Music City. 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Behind the flat, each evening like clockwork we hear the screams of tourists on the Edinburgh ghost tour as they are attacked by some sort of plastic Scottish elephant man. The Edinburgh fringe: why did I do it? 2010-08-13T08:00:00Z She would do the dishes nightly, like clockwork. The dishes will never be done 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z In truth, though, the next half-hour went like clockwork. Chesley Sullenberger: an old-fashioned kind of hero 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z I realized I’d internalized all that pain and my body/mind recalled it like clockwork every year. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Readers’ advice on getting through and even enjoying the holidays 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Just like clockwork, it has now gone to No. 1, becoming Drake’s 11th album to top the Billboard 200 chart. Drake’s ‘Honestly, Nevermind’ Is His 11th No. 1 Album 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z The stagecraft is not sophisticated, but this is a show that runs like clockwork – and often on wheels. George's Marvellous Medicine - review 2011-01-07T22:15:01Z He wants his pulse checked regularly and his enemas performed like clockwork. Comedy for hypochondriacs: It's A Noise Within's 'The Imaginary Invalid' 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z This Friday, Woody Allen, 78, will, like clockwork, release his latest, the French Riviera romantic comedy “Magic in the Moonlight.” Working late in life, directors refuse to say cut 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z The high-energy show got going like clockwork, about an hour into brunch. What has booze, bottomless bites and lots of Beyoncé? D.C.’s drag brunches. 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Do you expect the process to be more improvisational, or more like clockwork? ArtsBeat: More Todd Haynes on My Morning Jacket Concert Film 2011-05-03T19:48:06Z Weird Al, whose real name is Alfred Matthew Yankovic, said in a statement that he had vowed to his fans to “release a major motion picture every 33 years, like clockwork.” Daniel Radcliffe to Play Weird Al Yankovic in New Biopic 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z And yet, every Saturday like clockwork, sweaty crowds form lines between stalls at the Parap Markets, craving a fix. How laksa fever took hold in this Australian city 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z Come rain or shine, storm or calm, the tides flow in and out like clockwork. Could the UK's tides help wean us off fossil fuels? 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z It’s like clockwork: first comes a brisk fall breeze, then comes the public health push to get a flu shot. The Flu Vaccine Works—In a Way Most People Don’t Appreciate 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z “He’s like clockwork, he knows what to do, you don’t have to tell him,” Torres said. RJ Peete isn't just a clubhouse attendant with autism. He's a central part of the Dodgers family 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z In past years, like clockwork, the towering flowers have first blossomed in June and July, said Brandon Tam, associate curator of the Huntington’s orchid collection. Another rare corpse flower set to stink up the Huntington with the smell of dead rats 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z “These conservative groups show up like clockwork to school board meetings,” said Strong, a high school English teacher in Austin. Two Florida moms are at the center of the fight against book banning in America 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Once again, like clockwork, the nation is about to engage in our debt ceiling dance. Debt default: Serious consequences 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z Since the 1940s, with a couple of exceptions, strikes have shaken the entertainment industry almost like clockwork — every seven or eight years — usually aligning with upheaval in the fast-changing business. Writers, Seeking Pay Change for the Streaming Era, Prepare to Strike 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z Toyota prides itself on its “just in time” production system, which runs like clockwork and is praised by manufacturing experts around the world. Toyota’s new president vows to step up electric vehicle push 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z "It's like clockwork on Monday morning. I come in and see the inquiries and referrals about moms who need treatment and we can't function at full capacity because we don't have staff." Health providers scramble to keep remaining staff amid Medicaid rate debate 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z Water glasses are refilled like clockwork, and the servers know their stuff. Review | Foraged in Baltimore celebrates a few of the chef’s favorite things 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Some readers donate to the Fund every year, like clockwork. Inspired to help, Seattle Times readers donate millions to Fund for Those in Need 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z The first night under the new restrictions got off to an eerily quiet start in Yuma, Arizona, where hundreds of migrants usually cross like clockwork daily between midnight and sunrise, including many Cubans. Biden toughens border, offers legal path for 30,000 a month 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Almost nothing changed politically, as his reelection came in like clockwork, always between 63 and 68 percent, but then ahead of the 2016 campaign, Shelby heard footsteps. Analysis | ‘We won that’: How Shelby beat the FBI, an ethics committee and Trump 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z For them, true luxury is everything in its right place, operating like clockwork. How the 1% Runs an Ironman 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Kevin de León When the whole thing went down with when I walked into the caucus, and they got all the members there, like clockwork, all the white members, “Come, right now.” The entire L.A. City Council racist audio leak, transcribed and annotated by our experts 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z “Staff were present and then all of a sudden disappeared like clockwork, leaving me alone with this extremely powerful and intimidating Hollywood legend,” Ms. Siebel Newsom wrote. Jennifer Siebel Newsom Testifies in Weinstein Sex Crimes Trial 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z Moreover, this process repeats like clockwork every orbit, each time generating twin sprays of expanding material as the stars approach each other. Dazzling New JWST Image Shows Dusty Stellar Spirals 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z “I laid the groundwork,” she sings over a blippy electronic groove, her voice edging slightly ahead of the beat, “and then just like clockwork the dominoes cascaded in a line.” Out of the woods, Taylor Swift's 'Midnights' heralds the return of a pop-music mastermind 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z “Staff were present and then all of a sudden disappeared like clockwork, leaving me alone with this extremely powerful and intimidating Hollywood legend.” Wife of Gov. Gavin Newsom of California to Testify in Weinstein Trial 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Given Alabama's long experience with capital punishment, one might think that its executions would go off like clockwork. Alabama's death-row debacle: The state plans to kill a man this week. But how? 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z "I'm so proud of how the city's dealt with everything. Everything seems to have gone - on the surface - like clockwork," she said. St Giles' vigil: Up all night and queueing through the sunrise 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z “And if someone thinks that we have already passed some kind of Rubicon and that the rest will be like clockwork, unfortunately, it will not be.” Putin Orders a Sharp Expansion of Russia’s Hard-Hit Armed Forces 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Before the war, new crops moved in and out of grain elevators — from harvest to export — like clockwork. Crops ‘Stored Everywhere’: Ukraine’s Harvest Piles Up 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z They are not highly paid, but their jobs are all but guaranteed — so their paychecks arrive like clockwork. Where an Army Paycheck Is an Easy Target 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Caulfield described the cycle as “almost factory production, happening like clockwork.” Don’t Believe Everything You Read About the Man in This Photo 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z For all its open sky, “The Lioness” better resembles an Agatha Christie locked-manor-house mystery, with bodies falling like clockwork, than a gripping survivalist yarn. Review: Why a new historical thriller on the Serengeti is better (sorry) than Agatha Christie 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z The familiar patterns — a wave in one country means another wave elsewhere — no longer necessarily work like clockwork, Patel said. South Africa’s latest surge is a possible preview of pandemic’s next chapter 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z Every few months, like clockwork, hundreds of videos promising tips and tricks to “hack” your gut flood TikTok. Why Is Gut Health Taking Over TikTok? 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z “I get an article every day or every other day about the Black experience and Black life in America … literally almost every day, like clockwork,” he said. L.A. County's sheriff has a strange obsession with how much media coverage Black people get 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z The conversation about how to arrest the decline in viewing figures rolls around like clockwork every year. Oscars 2022: Five ways the Academy is trying to stay relevant 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z Even in the best of times, the place never runs like clockwork. Opinion | The Senate accidentally agreed to move our clocks forward. Blame Putin. 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z The charity's Bob James said everyone was "buzzing" and it had gone "like clockwork". Ukraine war: Aid donation lorries leave Wrexham 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z Crystal’s lifts began spinning like clockwork at 8:30 a.m. and I headed up to get my powder fix. Crystal Mountain is taking on parking woes with a shuttle. Our reporter took the bus to ski 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z And — just like clockwork — when Democrats in Washington have nowhere else to turn and nothing good to talk about, in rides Mr. Putin to their rescue. Democrats’ best buddy Putin to the rescue 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z “My mother was like clockwork,” Bob tells me, emphasizing the routineness by snapping his fingers. After discovering six adopted brothers and sisters, these siblings believe their story is more than a sprawling family secret The results were highly unusual for a company that for years has churned out stellar financial performances like clockwork, powering through scandals about privacy and misinformation and other toxic content. Meta spent $10 billion on the metaverse in 2021, dragging down profit 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z “When my last movie ‘UHF’ came out in 1989, I made a solemn vow to my fans that I would release a major motion picture every 33 years, like clockwork. Of course it's weird: Daniel Radcliffe will play 'Weird Al' Yankovic in a new biopic 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z “Everything worked like clockwork: fast, coherent and effective,” Putin told Shoigu on state television. Russia-led bloc starts Kazakhstan pullout after possible coup bid crushed 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z It’s a new year, and like clockwork, 2022 has brought with it a plethora of new chips for laptops, desktops, phones, and more. Everything you need to know about 2022’s biggest chips from CES (and elsewhere) 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Now, we’re digitizing a lot of those processes so that it happens like clockwork, and people can have the confidence that nothing slipped through the cracks. Future of Work: Computer vision and machine learning may soon bolster restaurant jobs 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z The articles come like clockwork at this time of year: “How Do You Stay Sane During Wintertime?” Moira Macdonald’s ode to winter, plus reader tips on weathering Seattle’s ‘Big Dark’ 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z Minutes later, like clockwork, they see eggs and sperm from spawning coral drifting past their boat. Darwin in a lab: Coral evolution tweaked for global warming 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Then an offspring of the rain, which now came every afternoon like clockwork — a mole of chicatanas. Tracing Mexico’s Complicated Relationship With Rice 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z And a leopard wrasse that goes to bed like clockwork at 7:35 p.m. and wakes up exactly 12 hours later. High-end design comes to the fish tank 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z And that doesn’t even touch on the periodic UFO mania that pops up like clockwork. Launching myself into this decade’s space race 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Like celestial lighthouses, the stars send streams of radio waves or other radiation into the universe, rotating rapidly so that their beams appear to pulse like clockwork. Antony Hewish, astronomer who won Nobel Prize for the discovery of pulsars, dies at 97 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z “In the past, fires burned through sequoia groves sort of like clockwork,” said Nate Stephenson, a research ecologist with the U.S. Fighting fire with fire: How prescribed burns could help save the world's largest trees 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z Mr Ross added: "We have seen almost every year, like clockwork, the SNP's flu jag programme descends into chaos. They cannot let the country down by allowing Covid booster jags to go the same way." Scotland to vaccinate 12 to 15-year-olds from Monday 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z There’s a template to be followed and “Kate” does so, like clockwork. Review: 'Kate' in spades — Mary Elizabeth Winstead wants revenge 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Ideally, I would visit every four weeks, but it doesn’t happen like clockwork. ‘The Haircut Is Simple and the Same One I Have Been Getting for 11 Years’ 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z “Those bills, they come like clockwork,” Mr. Burns, 41, said. ‘A Struggle for the Millennials’ 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z And so, there they are again, like clockwork. The Euro 2020 Group Stage Is Over: Here’s What We Learned 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z I guess all those death threats against election officials are the sign of a healthy democracy working like clockwork. Republicans can't make it any clearer: Trump's Big Lie must be defended at any cost — even democracy 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z “This particular situation went like clockwork. Just nice when everything comes together, and we make it happen.” Man rescued from abandoned Vermont copper mine shaft 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z And, like clockwork, the grand plan would fail to materialize, the big clubs bought off by promises of more power and more money if only they would agree to stay. How the Super League Fell Apart 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z Downtown Washington has long been known as a hub for lobbyists and lawyers commuting to and from the office like clockwork each weekday. Downtown D.C. was emptying before the pandemic. How it recovers will shape the nation’s capital. 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z The purple martin “landlords” are rewarded with “a family-like bond with the birds who return to the same colony year after year like clockwork,” Siegrist said. First purple martins of the year spotted in West Virginia 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z Tens of thousands of years later, periodical cicadas are still emerging like clockwork every 13 or 17 years. Noisy Cicadas Are Emerging Earlier 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z As its name suggests, the Seattle Flu Study was designed to monitor the virus that rolls in like clockwork every fall, trailing misery in its wake. COVID-19 precautions shut down flu this season, but what will next winter bring? 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z The rover’s arrival at Mars was filled with nail-biting drama, even as the precise, autonomous descent unfolded like clockwork. After dramatic landing, Mars rover will probe ancient lake for clues to planet’s wet past 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Every year, like clockwork, around the beginning of February, my dad starts getting really excited. Let the good times roll with this recipe for Mardi Gras oyster po’boys | Cooking with Sadie 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Exasperated Albertsons clerks, nearly all Latino, tried in vain to herd everyone into lines while the doctors on the other side of the lines smiled and checked paperwork and administered shots like clockwork. Column: My dad was a COVID-19 skeptic. But he got vaccinated, and so can your pandejos 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z While being together all the time in a confined space posed some difficulties in the beginning, now everything goes like clockwork on “Teatime”, named after the family’s habit of sitting down for tea and chatter. Splendid isolation: Hungarian family outsails COVID nightmare on the sea 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z Here are salmonberries, which arrive like clockwork each spring; here is a licorice fern with its edible, medicinal root. Nature Conservancy’s ‘Human/Nature’ explores our connections — and responsibilities — to Washington’s outstanding surroundings 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z The transfer of power will happen, like clockwork. Editorial Roundup: New York 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z On days she isn’t in the field, Henninger is collating reports from across the region from fellow observers and writing up forecasts that transmit every evening like clockwork at 6 p.m. In pursuit of endless winter, Irene Henninger becomes the Northwest Avalanche Center’s newest forecaster 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z But in the past four months, the noise would come like clockwork: Every Sunday from 5 to 7 p.m. the group fired hundreds of rounds on the land, the couple said. Accused leader of plot to kidnap Michigan governor was struggling financially, living in basement storage space 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z It happens like clockwork: At least one corporation ends up apologizing during Hispanic Heritage Month because their campaign intended to celebrate Latinos ends up offending them. Hispanic Heritage Month gets justifiable criticism, but it's still worth celebrating. Here's why 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z “Usually they arrive every three weeks like clockwork,” she said. Thousands of chicks arrive dead to farmers amid USPS turmoil 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Then, twice a week, like clockwork, he posts a short video on YouTube about his exploits as a neophyte farmer, often highlighting failures or pratfalls. In a wistful age, farmers find a new angle: chore TV 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z In Baghdad, the roar of generators punctuates daily outages like clockwork. Record temperatures, pending deals inflame Iraq’s power woes 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z And so, like clockwork, as anti-racism protests swept the country over the last few months, the sports’ gesture machine cranked into gear. Words aren't enough. Sports team CEOs must use their influence to effect change | Etan Thomas 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z There is a reason everything runs like clockwork almost every time Liverpool play and it is because every player knows exactly what he is meant to be doing. Premier League 2019-20 season review: our writers’ best and worst 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z He tackles each step like clockwork, routinely stopping to explain methodology and answer questions from viewers. Distance learning isn’t just for kids: 12 online classes to nurture the mind, body and soul 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z In Italy, the latest country hardest hit by the new coronavirus, it’s been happening seemingly like clockwork. Will California's coronavirus crisis look like Italy's soon? 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z The cancellations Thursday rolled in like clockwork as act after act announced changes to their touring schedules. Coronavirus live updates: Europe shuts down schools as markets tumble, sporting world in crisis 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z As the calendar flipped to March and, like clockwork, Maryland’s continued presence atop the Big Ten Conference was reassured, senior guard Blair Watson was desperate to communicate the importance of humility. Humility is key for Maryland women’s basketball ahead of the Big Ten tournament 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z We do not want to give the impression that we served in some golden age when the Senate operated like clockwork and its members embraced one another as one big happy family. Opinion | 70 former U.S. senators: The Senate is failing to perform its constitutional duties 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z There was a time in America when wealthy sales reps would treat themselves to a new Cadillac Eldorado or Lincoln Continental every year, trading them in like clockwork. Perspective | Soul-searching and car-shopping: What’s the best machine for our needs? 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z A few times I came close to quitting, and like clockwork, just before I pulled the plug, I received a bonus or significant raise. I Worked for Alex Jones. I Regret It. 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z It would strike, like clockwork, nearly every week. Gene therapy is facing its biggest challenge yet 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z But Pakistani farmers also burn their crops, and Lahore is dotted with factories that emit dirty fumes while vehicular diesel fuel sends air pollution levels skyrocketing like clockwork every autumn and winter. Pakistan Blames India for Its Air Pollution. Its Citizens Disagree. 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z They arrive like clockwork in my inbox just waiting for me to open them and scan the headlines for mentions of drone strikes, airstrikes, or civilian casualties. Why I weep while I work: What it means to experience America’s wars from a computer screen away 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z The band were very well-behaved and it all went like clockwork. The Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet: Michael Joseph's best photograph 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z "The whole village pulls together like clockwork every year," she said. Poldark and Peter Rabbit star in scarecrow show 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z O’Brien said the first of two practices between these teams before Saturday’s preseason game ran like clockwork. Lions-Texans practice a reunion for Patricia and O’Brien 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z The same tweets and comments come rolling in like clockwork every time a picture, video or story is posted calling the Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park the future home of the Rams and Chargers. Column: markazi column 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z “We’ve been trying gradually more and more complex missions. Today, everything just operated like clockwork.” Virgin Orbit drops a rocket from the wing of a plane in critical test 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z “It’s like clockwork; it’s unbelievable,” said Warren LeGarie, the founder of the Las Vegas Summer League. As scout of NBA talent for 50 years, the Lakers' Bill Bertka is always prepared 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z It’s also that the Bruins’ power play operates like clockwork and fuels everything about their offensive game. Poetry on ice: Bruins’ potent power play is key to Cup Final 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z Zoo officials said M’bari’s roars were heard like clockwork, in the early mornings and late afternoons. Two beloved lions die of old age at California zoos this week 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z They take turns on the lanes like clockwork, each displaying the kind of highly personal moves that bowling seems to encourage. Socialization and celebration are as important as strikes during West Seattle Bowl’s welcoming league nights 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z He designed the site’s processes so it would run like clockwork, even in his absence. A lawyer set himself on fire to protest climate change. Did anyone care? 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z And like clockwork, every time they ran short of something, it would turn up, he said. Farmer turns his house into relief center in Mozambique 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z Instead they saw that the two peaks in each calcium line rose and fell in opposition to each other every 2 hours like clockwork. Astronomers spy an iron planet stripped of its crust around a burned-out star 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z And each year, like clockwork, the economy would hit the bull’s-eye — or so the official data said. Trump trade war slows China economy growth 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Sessions run like clockwork and even rest periods are timed to the millisecond. How Schalke's 'melting pot' academy produced a string of young players 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z And, like clockwork, those who want to deny the established science that humans are warming the planet will try to flip the script. How the Weather Gets Weaponized in Climate Change Messaging 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Forgotten diseases take a heavy toll: schistosomiasis, filariasis, leprosy, even plague, the Black Death of the Middle Ages, which returns like clockwork every fall—last year in the most fearsome outbreak ever. A prescription for Madagascar’s broken health system: data and a focus on details 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z President Donald Trump, her hair neatly half swept back in trademark fashion, making sure everything goes like clockwork. Smoke signals: Kim Jong Un's sister rushed off her feet on Vietnam... 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z While Cooper himself is not usually a terrible actor, this film plays to the lowest common denominator, hitting every chef cliché like clockwork. In honor of the Oscars, we asked Seattle chefs to name their picks for all-time Best Food Film 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Over the next few months, the strange smell would return every night, like clockwork. The small town with a dirty secret 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Some are from perfectly ordinary quarterly deadlines when, like clockwork, campaigns beg small donors for just a bit more cash ahead of a Very Important Deadline. 6 Days When 2020 Democratic Hopefuls Scored With Small Donors 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z The messages landed in mailboxes across Queens like clockwork: glossy fliers, such as those from a political campaign, extolling a deal that would bring Amazon to Long Island City, paid for by Amazon. Amazon Has a New Strategy to Sway Skeptics in New York 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z A: When we have a bush fire or a massive flood, the emergency response often works like clockwork. Q&A: The odd—and sometimes tense—intersection of cops, soldiers, and public health 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Since Dave’s grandfather bought the company, management has moved through the family like clockwork — from his uncle to his father to two of his elder brothers and, in 2010, to Dave himself. After 113 years, Ballard Transfer hoists its last load 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Some privately-run park partners and concessions operators are, by now, so used to dealing with federal shutdown threats that their plans to deal with them run like clockwork. Locked doors, cancelled tours: US national parks suffer amid shutdown 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z And, like clockwork, a Strictly contestant being accused of having too much dance experience. Is Ashley Roberts 'too good' to be on Strictly? 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z And like clockwork, one candidate for the number five position in the caucus, Assistant Democratic Leader, has dropped out. Nancy Pelosi strengthens her hand as Democrats win another House seat – live updates 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z In a week, like clockwork, they will be back, poised for the deadly ritual to start all over again. Gaza's fatal ritual: Endless protests, mounting casualties 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Everything inside appears to be moving like clockwork. Kentucky letdown: No blue wave for Amy McGrath in the Bluegrass State 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z “It was like clockwork, for years and years,” said Mr. Halle. Tree of Life Synagogue Victims Remembered as Guardians of Their Faith 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z The pattern now unfolds like clockwork: allegations, outrage, fallout. Opinion | ‘This Moment Turned Out to Be Fleeting’ 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z “As the planet goes around, it’s going to transit more or less like clockwork,” Teachey says. Astronomers may have discovered the first moon ever found outside our Solar System 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z It was just one in a long line of intense, coordinated, strategic attacks on President Trump and his administration which arrive like clockwork daily, and every other word is “chaos.” Inside the Beltway: Repetitive Trump attacks losing their power 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Ghastly narratives and strategic buzzwords such as “chaos” appear like clockwork. Inside the Beltway: Attacks on Trump run like clockwork 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z Indeed, there is a brand of literature unique to the nation’s capital, and one which is released like clockwork during the year. Inside the Beltway: Democrats faulted for joining Kavanaugh chaos 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z While the #BillsMafia website states the movement began in 2010, it really went mainstream over the last few seasons, as videos of their tailgating Tom Foolery began to go viral each week like clockwork. Bills Mafia 2017: An Encore Presentation - Golf Digest 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Under normal circumstances the village experiences only occasional earthquakes, residents said, but in the months since Kilauea began erupting, a “big one” hit “like clockwork” every day for months. Hawaiian town rocked by up to 800 earthquakes daily as volcano erupts 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z The French philosopher René Descartes was reputedly fond of automata: they inspired his view that living things were biological machines that function like clockwork. Ancient dreams of intelligent machines: 3,000 years of robots 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Every year, like clockwork, we see the “summer reading list suggestion”. Am I really ‘hurtling towards middle age’ at 35? | Arwa Mahdawi 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z That’s 14 days in a row, and it’s really strange — especially since the season that’s supposed to deliver afternoon showers and thunderstorms like clockwork is not yet over. Washington is in a ‘flash drought,’ with only fleeting chances of rain in the forecast 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Still, the proposal remains alive in conservative circles and is put forward again like clockwork during GOP presidential primary season. Opinion | ‘Abolish ICE’ is a gift to Republicans 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Fischman, who won annual awards for his editorial writing like clockwork, was socially awkward but in an “endearing” way, Casey said. Slain newspaper employees noted for talent, warmth, wit 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Because, when the disappointments rolled in like clockwork each May, we recounted those that went before them, it’s worth recalling them now — and then dismissing them outright. Perspective | Who are these guys in the Capitals sweaters? Surely not those of so many playoff heartbreaks. 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Talk of returning the iconic clock tower to Ocean Beach Park seems to resurface every few years, if not like clockwork, at least with predictable regularity. Editorials from around New England 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z In addition, they measured the natural uranium content of one of the rhino's teeth, since that element decays like clockwork into thorium. 700,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Point to Mysterious Human Relative 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Every spring like clockwork, Bridget Cusick receives a package from her father. Yes, It’s Tax Day and You’re Still Doing Returns for Your Adult Children 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Or that the lifeless moon orbits the Earth like clockwork? For Easter, allow yourself to marvel at God’s creation 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z As presidential scandal after scandal cycles through the news like clockwork, we are drawn to the conclusion that Mr. Trump is the worst thing to happen to the Oval Office in American history. Opinion | Confronting Racism in America 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z But amid the bustle it is clear that everything works like clockwork. Refugees can achieve so much if they’re not caged in isolated camps | David Patrikarakos 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Bowen blew the air horn - like clockwork - when the time came to signal to players and coaches that a particular practice period was over. O.B. Bowen remembered as a ‘legend’ at Southern Miss 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z Bowen blew the air horn — like clockwork — when the time came to signal to players and coaches that a particular practice period was over. O.B. Bowen remembered as a ‘legend’ at Southern Miss 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z “They’re like clockwork, showing up in the same spot every evening.” What’s with all the cawing? UW team eavesdrops on crows 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z We will see the rotten fruit of this amateurish effort in about 3 or 4 years and like clockwork, they will point the finger at the left. After 7 Years of Job Growth, Room for More, or Danger Ahead? 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z The company has beaten revenue estimates like clockwork quarter after quarter for its first two years as a public company. Canadian coder strikes e-commerce gold with Shopify 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z Toward the end of the year, like clockwork, he seems to get preoccupied with one topic that involves the magazine: its annual Person of the Year recognition. A look at Trump’s on-again-off-again love affair with Time magazine 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z Six days a week like clockwork, the head of the CIA’s intelligence directorate sends an intelligence brief to the president. John Trattner, editor of the Prune Book guide to politically appointed jobs, dies at 86 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z And who appears like clockwork on British television without any word of this. Trump, Assange, Bannon, Farage… bound together in an unholy alliance | Carole Cadwalladr 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z “It’s not even kind of, it’s like clockwork. And then for whatever reason, we get in the game and it changes a little bit. So, we’re back to work.” No. 12 Huskies head into off week with sudden concerns 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z It’s like clockwork, but for whatever reason when we get in a game it changes a little bit, so we’re back to work.” UW’s Chris Petersen on ASU loss: ‘It didn’t get any better watching the tape. We’re all just really, really disappointed.’ 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z It happened every day, like clockwork: four or five people would come away from our interaction with water streaming down their faces, weeping openly in front of the Lego store. What happened when a poet was sent to the biggest US mall to write for shoppers 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z From the specter that seemed to surface every few months like clockwork. Opinion | When an Epidemic Is Personal 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z They will continue to happen, just like this — different venues, different innocent lives — like clockwork, year after year after year. Victims Watched a Familiar Horror Unfold in Las Vegas 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z The story was quickly forgotten, and now, like clockwork, the Pentagon receive more money than it even asked for. America gives $700bn to the military – but says healthcare is a luxury | Trevor Timm 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z I could be wrong, but this seems to happen like clockwork once every 54 games they're leading. Letters: They believe in Yu, but not in us 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Eclipses don’t occur like clockwork, but they do follow patterns that were discovered thousands of years ago by the Babylonians and other ancient civilizations. ‘A big dose of awe’: Last solar eclipse here, in 1979, changed Seattle author’s life 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z To be fair, they would literally disown him if he chose Emily over the scores of Pakistani ladies that “just drop by” their family dinners like clockwork, headshot and bio in hand. Film Review: Fall in love with ‘The Big Sick’ 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z He was home for dinner every night like clockwork. Losing a Father and Husband to AIDS, and Finding Him Again 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Saturday’s blastoff of the Falcon 9 rocket carrying the unmanned Dragon capsule went off like clockwork, rising from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on schedule at 5:07 p.m. local time. SpaceX Launches Previously Used Cargo Capsule for First Time 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z Cicadas overwhelm tree branches across the Mid-Atlantic once every 17 years, like clockwork. This isn’t a cicada year, so why are they now showing up across the Mid-Atlantic? 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Not all such meetings go like clockwork, though. Pope Francis says he won’t ‘make a judgment’ about Trump without ‘listening to him first’ 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Every two minutes they pulled into the station like clockwork. New York City Transit Reporter in Wonderland: Riding the London Tube 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z I remarked that the phrase “freeing up land” occurs like clockwork in conversations with Singapore’s planners. How Singapore Is Creating More Land for Itself 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Page supports himself almost entirely through the show, all while new “Enter the Dojo” clips are posted like clockwork at least once a week. New Mexico filmmakers left behind as industry booms in state 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z And yet, every morning, like clockwork, Trump takes to his phone to provide running commentary on cable news. Trump’s voracious appetite for cable news is troubling. But that’s not stopping him. 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z When Potomac School did test the Lions inside, the result was like clockwork for St. Andrew’s: Rebound, run and find Duruji. Anthony Duruji leads the charge as St. Andrew’s rolls past Potomac School 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z The protests keep on coming, just like clockwork. Inside the Beltway: Protesters to greet Trump near Mar-a-Lago 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z The trip back to Earth and the splashdown in the South Pacific, on Dec. 19, 1972, went like clockwork. Eugene Cernan, Last Human to Walk on Moon, Dies at 82 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z While everything that takes place on Inauguration Day might seem like clockwork, a closer look reveals that our presidential inaugurations have varied over the years — and this year may be different yet. Five myths about presidential inaugurations 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z For people in fashion, this is all very discombobulating, similar to when the post stopped coming at breakfast time like clockwork, and started randomly arriving mid afternoon. Nude selfies, cold shoulders and the Hadids: the year in fashion 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z It’s often said that the heavens run like clockwork. Ancient eclipses show Earth’s rotation is slowing 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z Players used to much shorter collegiate campaigns tend to break down, like clockwork, two-thirds of the way through MLS’ marathon regular season. For Sounders forward Jordan Morris, diabetes has shaped him into the player he is today 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Almost like clockwork, their fevers began in the morning: at 8 a.m. for Omar, who is 8; at 11 for Aristides, who is 7. Hard Times in Venezuela Breed Malaria as Desperate Flock to Mines 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z Every Monday through Thursday well before dawn, like clockwork, a taxi brings her to a dark Shoney’s parking lot so she can open the doors. After 50 years, Charleston waitress ready to hang up apron 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z Practices, games, playoff appearances - it’s all seemed like clockwork since. Coach to close out a storied career this season 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Shliselberg is at the pool like clockwork, five days a week. Daily Swims for a 90-Year-Old 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Here’s the other: Even if the Rio Games, by some miracle, run like clockwork, the Summer Olympics once again will become just another contest in which the results are likely fiction. Are the Olympics dead? Doping, corruption and incompetent officials run rampant 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Almost like clockwork, every time home prices have grown a dollar in Seattle, they’ve risen two dollars in San Francisco. Will Seattle really become the next San Francisco? 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z “It’s like clockwork,” said Kresl, one of four keepers who start their shifts in the late afternoon and are in charge of animal bedtimes. Spend a day behind the scenes at the San Diego Zoo as it turns 100 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z Bezos joked that he appeared at our conferences "every eight years like clockwork". Mossberg: Five things I learned from Jeff Bezos at Code 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z He was with Henry Washburn when they gazed spellbound at a geyser spurting 100 feet in the air - and as it did so again and again, almost like clockwork. How it all started: Yellowstone’s early history 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z But draft registration is still a stark reality for American men, who must sign up with the federal government like clockwork. Inside the Beltway: Poll finds women not at ease with the idea of being drafted 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z They were so loud, and so powerful, that they woke Stempowska in the middle of the night, and they continued every two hours, like clockwork, for more than a year. Searching for Nazi Gold 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z And like clockwork, at least once per movie, those characters hit a low point where they lay their vulnerabilities bare. In The Boss, Melissa McCarthy drops her last pretense of sincerity 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z “At the end of every practice every day, it’s like clockwork,” Barnes said. Tennessee relying more on its freshmen late in season 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z “It all went together like clockwork,” he said in an interview in December. Former restaurant owner donates historic train cars to Peru 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z He was “like clockwork with his business,” Sanders said. If this is Peyton Manning’s last start, you better believe he’ll be ready 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z Tim Blake Nelson is happiest when his household runs like clockwork. Tim Blake Nelson on the Upper West Side 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z The rafts arrive at the Greek island like clockwork as volunteers rush to meet them. Photographer's journal: A look at the migrant crisis in Lesbos, Greece 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z A Sherlock Holmesian analysis helped settle the issue: Errors seeded in the original data emerged like clockwork in match trackers on the betting sites, the courts said. N.F.L. Data Deal: A Bet on Gambling? 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Mr Phiri says he remembers when rains used to arrive like clockwork each year on 24 October, but "now there is global warming." Zambian businesses pummelled by power cuts - BBC News 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z But while its fleet of aircraft and delivery trucks continues to run like clockwork, investors are feeling a bit upside down lately, too. Give FedEx Credit for Its Ground Game 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Ultimately, it all went more or less like clockwork. Tokyo Olympics plans stumble on stadium fiasco, logo fuss 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Most of One Direction's predecessors toured just as hard at their peaks, slogging through Europe, Asia, and the Americas every year or two like clockwork. One Direction are tired: four years of 1D, by the numbers 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z The Perseid meteor shower is considered the "Old Faithful" of cosmic sky shows, peaking like clockwork every year on August 12 and 13. See Shooting Stars Galore as Meteor Shower Peaks 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z “Every day he was at my mom’s house like clockwork,” Ms. Ramirez said. Bronx Man’s Death From Legionnaires’ Disease Gives Family Cause to Worry 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z On the years in between when there is less promotion, some locals, art fanatics and fans of the Grateful Dead still show up like clockwork. For a fleeting moment, everything aligns at Rosslyn’s Dark Star Park 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z The Call of Duty machine continues to run like clockwork. 'Call of Duty' Cannibalism May Be Warding Off 'Modern Warfare,' 'Black Ops' Remasters 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Sue Caribou contracts pneumonia once a year, like clockwork. Canada confronts its dark of history of abuse in residential schools 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z But when he pitches one scoreless ninth inning after another, like clockwork, the praise goes elsewhere. Drew Storen piling up saves as Nationals’ hot stretch continues 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z In situations like this, we function like clockwork. The Importance of Getting Sick in the Right Place 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z At this point, it’s like clockwork, and frankly I was surprised it took this long to see a Game of Thrones episode leak this large. HBO Ramping Up 'Game of Thrones' Security After Episode Leak 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Pigeons are smart and will show up like clockwork if food is distributed at a particular time. Feeding Pigeons and the Results 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z Perhaps they are in fact predictable and certain, like clockwork. Fact or Fiction?: Did Dark Matter Kill the Dinosaurs? 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z When Republican presidential posturing turns into definitive action, the critics come out like clockwork. Inside the Beltway: Ted Cruz opponents assemble ahead of presidential bid 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z The backend of the site “worked like clockwork”, with a ticketing system, a white board, a watch list for those who broke site rules and a statistics tracker. 'They Were Good Conmen' - Evolution's Hype Man On Ex-Employers Who Made Millions From Drug Dealers 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z It is inevitable political theater: Donald Trump has formed an exploratory committee for a presidential campaign, and like clockwork, the Democratic National Committee couldn’t wait to capitalize on it. Inside the Beltway: Donald Trump launches presidential campaign exploratory committee 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Slowdowns, lock-outs and work stoppages occur on a regular basis—almost like clockwork about every five years. A Matter of Time Before West Coast Port Labor Issues Recur 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Players like Desmond, who start 150 games per year like clockwork, don’t do so by accident. Nationals face high expectations as they arrive at spring training 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z And so it begins, like clockwork, The presidential hopefuls have begun their invasion of New Hampshire. Inside the Beltway: Obama spends $6.8 million on Air Force One flights 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Guillermo Fariñas, who was detained like clockwork at 38 consecutive weekly protests outside his home this year in the city of Santa Clara, was even more blunt. Cuban dissidents shaken by U.S. rapprochement, seek new tactics 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z It is around this time that newspapers and magazines begin to fill, like clockwork, with essays rhetorically asking “Why Even Bother With College?” or “College, Who Needs It?” ‘Tis the season for college application panic Time appeared to stand still, but the negotiations continued like clockwork - meetings, calls to capitals, and more meetings. Drama in Vienna as Iran nuclear talks go down to the wire 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Every day, they left for their jobs—like clockwork. NetAppVoice: The Oranges Are Not The Only Clockwerks [100 Words Into The Future] 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z The Republican Party’s older, whiter constituency, by contrast, votes pretty much like clockwork. Where the Democrats went wrong Just like clockwork, the Sparks machine is primed to continue. ‘The Best of Me’ and the evil genius of the Nicholas Sparks empire This doesn’t prevent people queueing round the block each time a new model is released, which has happened, like clockwork, once a year since it was launched. Does the new Apple iPad look familiar? That's not a coincidence 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z I’ve been a career coach since 1996, and every year my phone lines heat up, like clockwork, just as the summer heat cools down. 8 Tips For Hiring And Using A Career Coach 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z “We call each other every year - my daughter and I do - like clockwork,” Simpson said. Searcy fire inspector recalls school shooting 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z “The grave mistake was to annually assume that the back-to-school shopper was going to show up like clockwork in July and buy goods in that time frame,” Mr. Morris of BMO said. Plugged-In Over Preppy: Teenagers Favor Tech Over Clothes 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z He is responsible for a team that ensures the 100-year-old mechanism works like clockwork. Working Lives Panama 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z There was also no news about a Season 2 renewal; generally, Schneider’s shows are renewed like clockwork. ‘Sam & Cat’ canceled after one season: Where did it all go wrong? The “Kitchen” ad shows a family in a kitchen with moving floors and a family engaging within it like clockwork. Ikea Advertising Miss: Epic For Epic's Sake 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z And like clockwork, when the stock market’s major barometers climb to new record highs, a crescendo builds up, warning that the next big move would be a debilitating correction – and it’s just around the corner! The Bears Have Reawakend But The Bulls May Be Setting The Stage For A "Melt-Up" 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z And like clockwork, the Democratic outrage machine sprang to life – using her comments to mobilize grass-roots supporters and raise small dollar campaign donations from Obama die-hards. 'No responsible Republican elected official has called for impeachment' 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z But religiously and like clockwork every few years I give him a call just to check in. How To Become A Visionary Leader (Without Really Trying) 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z In time, a big market decline arrives, like clockwork, and the stage is set for the final big blunder. Avoid This Common And Dangerous Retirement Blunder 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z I rarely heard from any other stores, but my Bed Bath & Beyond coupons still arrived like clockwork. 5 Stores Where You Can Always Get Deals 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z It happens once a week, almost like clockwork. Kevin McCarthy: Say what? The only thing that did not run like clockwork was Barkley, who pitched up late for the team coach, much to the amusement of his England team-mates. Sterling's name in the frame for England start 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z If everything went like clockwork, it would have taken a year to get items in stores. Amazon and a Mattel Unit Plan a ‘Content Hub’ Focusing on Children 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z In Egypt, where things rarely work like clockwork, authorities last week reimposed daylight saving time in an attempt to conserve energy. Abdel Fattah Sisi, Egypt's likely new leader, faces economic deja vu 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z During the PC’s run when more PCs were shipped to corporate segments than consumer ones, the corporate buying cycle was like clockwork — every two to three years. Where Computing Is Headed, from PCs to Smartphones 2014-05-12T15:54:35Z The plan went like clockwork for four months. Pacers 102, Thunder 97: Beating Thunder, Pacers Get Back on Track Toward No. 1 Seed 2014-04-13T21:57:21Z Mr. Sinha, the election chief for Uttar Pradesh, admitted that the electoral process doesn’t always work like clockwork, and he said the authorities continued to deal with logistical as well as law-and-order problems. India Ink: Setting Up an Election in the World’s Largest Democracy 2014-04-10T06:57:58Z Each year, the flu season arrives like clockwork. Matter: This Week’s Forecast: What Flu Season May Look Like 2014-01-16T15:20:42Z Back when the were winning year after year — they made the playoffs for 14 straight seasons, like clockwork — it was easy to be a fan. Sports of The Times: Longing for the Days When the Knicks Electrified a City 2013-12-06T07:44:56Z “Jane’s comes out every year like clockwork, and nobody ever pays any attention to it,” Crouch says. The Unlikely Fight Over First in Flight 2013-11-23T11:05:24Z But far from rushing into things, Mr Baitassov is working hard to ensure that his future global restaurant chain runs like clockwork. The Kazakh restaurateur with global ambitions 2013-09-08T23:00:27Z Hans Gruber had devoted years to crafting the perfect heist: recruiting safecrackers, assembling the armed goons, acquiring the getaway truck and practicing the timing until the entire operation was like clockwork, precise and efficient. Essay: Thriving on Chaos, Manziel Shocks a Traditional System 2013-08-23T14:57:10Z Children don’t work like clockwork so, assuming that the new mother is doing the child caring stuff, as they usually are, flexibility in an employer is the thing that new mothers value the most. An Excellent Explanation Of Why Google Works Like Google Does 2013-07-10T17:03:00Z But the company that was supposed to be making prefabricated parts like clockwork, from a factory in Lake Charles, La., was shipping them with some parts missing or without required paperwork. Nuclear Power’s Future May Hinge on Georgia Project 2013-06-11T14:03:29Z We knew literally what time in the afternoon, what the adjustment needed to be made to the car, and it was like clockwork, didn't matter the year, just every single time. Johnson wins again and shrugs off the haters 2013-05-19T16:53:10Z The whole team is ticking like clockwork, readying for tomorrow. Space station springs a leak; astronauts prepare for spacewalk to repair it 2013-05-10T15:23:43Z And he described his routine: “like clockwork,” he left at 5:30 every morning, when the neighbors were still asleep. New Jersey Officials Detail Bid by Tick Tock Diner Manager to Have Uncle Killed 2013-05-03T00:32:56Z And no surprise, his daughter loved it: Just like clockwork, she woke up and sat on my lap asking to play Donkey Kong. Feminist hero dad hacks Donkey Kong for daughter 2013-03-11T18:54:00Z Also, three of the four people most likely to lose their jobs vote like clockwork to elect republicans that want to cut their jobs/benefits. The GOP Prefers Pancakes: Why All the Goofy Polls? 2013-03-02T22:20:24Z Nonetheless, the endless parade of devices appears like clockwork at the CES, and in “crying wolf” fashion, the electronics innovators and marketers unconvincingly announce that all of our lives will be changed. ‘Hot’ New Gadgets Anybody? No Thanks, We’re Good 2013-01-11T19:02:56Z I was amazed to see everything run like clockwork, with minimal delays and no hitches. CES Day One Recap 2013-01-08T16:08:39Z There are all sorts of choices for outsourcing noncore functions to professional firms that get things done like clockwork. 5 Surefire Ways to Piss Off Customers 2012-12-07T14:53:06Z In Florida, absentee-ballot scandals seem to arrive like clockwork around election time. As More Vote by Mail, Faulty Ballots Could Impact Elections 2012-10-07T04:58:01Z Bottom line for the Beavers: It went like clockwork, much as their 2-0 season. Oregon State players motivated by promise of trip to In-N-Out Burger 2012-09-27T03:10:32Z But two years from now it’s like clockwork. Virginia Tech’s ‘green’ defensive backfield remains a work in progress 2012-08-24T14:57:19Z Every finger is crossed, but so far it's gone like clockwork. London 2012: Britain's Olympic gold rush provides a lesson for politics 2012-08-05T14:52:42Z “Certainly, I want the thing to work absolutely like clockwork,” he said in a recent interview. With World Watching, London Looks to Shine 2012-07-27T14:47:19Z Sky this year worked like clockwork, with every rider selfless in support of the leader. Why Wiggins won the Tour de France 2012-07-22T15:38:23Z Officials can only keep their fingers crossed that everything else will run like clockwork as an estimated 6.5 million visitors descend on the city. London ready for Olympics, but Tube a worry 2012-06-25T13:58:08Z And like clockwork, three struggling phone vendors issue warnings about six weeks after the EU debt crisis really started boiling over. Silent Spring - What the Handset Warning Cluster Means 2012-06-14T13:26:21Z "It's like clockwork," Mariners outfielder Mike Carp said. Batting practice is serious business for Mariners 2012-06-01T02:46:59Z You name it, they executed in Games 1 through 3 like clockwork. LA Kings v New Jersey Devils: the road to the 2012 NHL Stanley Cup finals 2012-05-28T13:55:38Z Say twelve or fifteen hundred a year, coming in like clockwork. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z The motors, too, ran like clockwork, and beyond attending to the semi-automatic lubricators occasionally, the air-mechanics on duty had little to do. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z June Garden runs her two houses, one here and one in Manchester, like clockwork, and they go backwards and forwards between them in a really regal car. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z The sea was like quicksilver, there was a following wind, the powerful engines were moving like clockwork, and everything indicated a fast and prosperous voyage. Bert Wilson, Wireless Operator 2012-03-27T02:00:19.467Z A fireman may become so accustomed to the road and his engine, that under some conditions he may fire when he reaches certain points on the road, regulating it like clockwork. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z "My lord, everything is carried on in my new house with the greatest regularity--everything in short goes like clockwork." Ever Heard This? Over Three Hundred Good Stories 2012-03-21T02:00:33.730Z And - like clockwork - the world's media will run and run with "Bully's Birthday" headlines - and change little on the ground because for some presidents there is no such thing as bad publicity. African viewpoint: Are birthday overrated? 2012-02-28T09:02:31Z It was like clockwork: Every year around Christmastime and right after the Big East Tournament, we all just wanted to get away from each other for a little bit. Making the most of your entire college experience 2012-02-14T20:03:48Z He knows me and he goes through it all like clockwork for me. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z Popular in society, constantly entertaining with great hospitality, she yet contrives to attend to every detail of her large household, which consequently goes like clockwork. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z A new study suggests that investing your retirement money half in bonds and half in stocks will produce 5% annual returns like clockwork, despite bumps in the economy. Foolproof Retirement: The 50-50 Plan That's Averaged 5% Since 1926 2011-11-29T20:50:45Z Everything went off like clockwork—everything but the bomb. On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents 2011-11-26T03:00:14.947Z The girls of Central High played like clockwork for the first five minutes and scored a clean goal. The Girls of Central High at Basketball The Great Gymnasium Mystery 2011-11-04T02:00:20.757Z Places like Jefferson Head, Kingston, Possession Bar, like clockwork, every year, they appear out of nowhere. Tony Floor's Tackle Box looks at winter fishing opportunities 2011-11-02T17:09:06Z More than forty ships were reported overdue when we arrived—a curious thing to think of now, with the steamers crowding every port keeping time like clockwork. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z And it's taken us awhile to get to that point where it's like clockwork. Lorenzo Romar says Tony Wroten Jr. may return next week 2011-10-21T18:03:18Z Then always, in the middle of the afternoon, like clockwork, I stop for another cup of coffee. | Cosmo Baker: For Cosmo Baker, Sundays Are for Decompressing 2011-10-08T02:14:55Z In Armstrong’s view of the world, where boom-bust cycles occur like clockwork every 8.6 years, what matters is his record as a forecaster, not as a criminal. Felon Forecaster Blogs on Economic Cycles After 11 Years in Jail 2011-09-28T04:26:59Z More years passed and, like clockwork on every December 15th, a taxi would pull up to the driveway, and Bobby would emerge with a big suitcase. Every girl dreams of falling in love 2011-09-21T17:20:43.557Z Once we get up to the line of scrimmage, it’s kind of like clockwork.” Cutler bracing for Saints' defense, Superdome din 2011-09-14T17:43:00Z A little after midnight, nausea, dry heaves, and vomiting hit suddenly, and they recurred like clockwork every 45 minutes, untouched by the standard antinausea medicine I'd been taking. Cancer and Me 2011-08-09T14:41:00Z Routine went on like clockwork, save that the Modder River clock had no works. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 2011-07-29T02:00:27.053Z First toes, then knees, then navel, and a moment of lightness: I was floating, unanchored, just shy of the patch of sand that is licked like clockwork by waves. Some weekend reading for you 2011-07-22T21:15:03.860Z Every business has an average customer – a person that consistently spends around the same amount and appears at your doorstep like clockwork. You're the Boss: This Week in Small Business: A Union for Owners 2011-06-27T11:00:57Z The consumption of both had not been excessive, and the motor was running like clockwork. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z They say he's a devil in the operating-room, swearing like a trooper if everything doesn't go like clockwork! The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z Every 13 years, the cicadas come like clockwork, or a biblical curse. The South Endures the Buzz of the Latest ?Cicada Year? 2011-05-25T05:17:35Z Social Security kept sending monthly benefits to 55 million recipients, like clockwork; Medicare went on paying for everything from wheelchairs to heart operations. Americans don't believe Medicare has to be cut 2011-05-23T11:20:00Z It was the last Tuesday of the month, and, like clockwork, the geeks arrived in droves. City Room: Engineers Gather, Asking What Makes the City Tick 2011-05-12T11:03:54Z Of course I was impressed by the pomp and pageantry and how everything went like clockwork. Fashionably late 2011-05-09T12:28:13Z Now, whenever gas prices shoot up, like clockwork, you see politicians racing to the cameras, waving three-point plans for $2 gas. Obama sees no magic bullet to push down gas prices 2011-04-23T10:10:25Z The offense functioned like clockwork — in terms of predictability. The Fifth Down: 2010 Bengals: What the Film Revealed 2011-03-30T10:01:08Z Every evening, like clockwork, he appeared at six to dine with my mother, and walked home after coffee at eight. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z View the slide show Japan's huge earthquake brought super-modern Tokyo to a standstill Friday, paralyzing trains that normally run like clockwork and stranding hordes of commuters carrying mobile phones rendered largely useless by widespread outages. Radiation levels surge near Japanese nuclear power plant 2011-03-11T22:53:00Z In the direction of Polygon Wood the plan of attack seems to have worked like clockwork. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z For weeks they had been busy with preparations, and when the hour arrived everything went like clockwork. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z They had all the stores, and guns, and ammunition, and railway trains they needed, and the whole system was arranged like clockwork. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) From the Beginning of the War to the Landing of the British Army in France 2011-02-19T03:01:09.157Z A few astronomers thought they could see even more of a dino-cosmos link — a pattern of mass extinctions occurring like clockwork in the geologic record. A giant hidden planet in our own solar system 2011-02-16T17:05:00Z But even if Sukey isn't yet working like clockwork, it appeared to have two effects on Saturday. Inside the anti-kettling HQ 2011-02-03T01:26:00Z Dubai unraveled like clockwork, as did Kuala Lumpur in 1997 with the twin Petronas Towers, Chicago in 1974 with the Sears Tower and New York in the 1930s with the Chrysler and Empire State buildings. Pinnacle Envy Signals a New Bubble Is Inflating: William Pesek 2011-01-30T20:06:50Z "Went through like clockwork," replied Craft, slumping into a chair beside the table. The Rider of Golden Bar 2011-01-04T03:01:06.347Z I had vital signs taken every four hours like clockwork. Well: A Hospital Room With a View 2010-12-17T19:22:56Z Until recently, the firm had dominated sales charts, issuing hit funds like clockwork. Special Report: What did you do in the ETF war, daddy? 2010-12-03T13:18:00Z In contrast, at The Times, almost like clockwork, memos are circulated one every other year or so admonishing us to write shorter, and shorter yet. Passions and Detachment in Journalism 2010-08-31T14:39:00Z He's discovered that, like clockwork, retirees get about three years into their retirement before landing in some state of depression. Retirement 2.0: What You Should Know About the Future of Retirement 2010-08-25T20:15:00Z He creates gold from dross modern-style, filling his prescriptions every month like clockwork and then selling the unopened bottles for hundreds of dollars each on a street corner somewhere. Essay: Livesaving Medications, Through a Back Door 2010-07-26T21:47:00Z But sure enough, like clockwork, he runs them up again within a few weeks, mainly through online shopping when he's bored. Tips for couples to help solve money problems 2010-07-04T04:00:00Z Brad Stevens has these guys operating like clockwork. Live Updates From N.C.A.A. Tournament's Round of 8 2010-03-27T21:56:00Z They do this about 200 times - they are a bit like clockwork at this stage. 2010-01-29T11:31:00Z Mr. Gibbs said: “It never ceases to amaze that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that could be so utterly stupid, but it like clockwork happens with some regularity.” 2010-01-15T13:24:00Z Barrifield assured him that they were doing beautifully, and that matters would go like clockwork when once they got started. The Bread Line A Story of a Paper How wonderful to think that our eight thousand miles of travel was all conducted like clockwork, with entire reliability, and precision, from point to point, across the continent and back again, without hitch or accident. A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 The sort that give no trouble 'cos you know their orders right off and leave their twopence like clockwork, see? A Bed of Roses This is going to match up like clockwork.” Stepsons of Light But things are going like clockwork in the west. Black Man's Burden Everything went like clockwork; there was not a hitch, not the smallest oversight. Jena or Sedan? Breakfast passed off like clockwork at seven, and even Mr. Golden had no complaints to offer. Seven Keys to Baldpate For three weeks the whole thing went like clockwork. Memoirs of Life and Literature The three dingoes leaped backward, each three paces, like clockwork machinery. Finn The Wolfhound Every few hours like clockwork the Martian signals came through. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 With Jane Austen days, hours, minutes succeed each other like clockwork, one central figure is always present on the scene, that figure is always prepared for company. A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen Everything he did "went like clockwork," and he prided himself on his punctuality. Tales from Dickens Only at night had it rained, like clockwork: every night for fifteen minutes immediately after midnight. Slaves of Mercury They had sent their shells at the right moment, the whole performance had gone off like clockwork. They Shall Not Pass For everything went off like clockwork, especially the victuals—and such victuals! The Brown Mouse Breaking camp in the morning became routine, and proceeded like clockwork. Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Travel to California by the Ox-team Method "It needs careful planning, for it must be done like clockwork if we are not to make a mess of it." Two Daring Young Patriots or, Outwitting the Huns Everything had gone like clockwork in port, but, for the first few days at sea, these practical sons of the bush and the sheep-stations were for the moment put out of their stride. The Tale of a Trooper The daily life is laid out with regularity and goes on like clockwork in punctuality. George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God “It would be that way,” she said, “if I looked after things myself, but I shall expect you, Patty, to take entire charge of the occasion, and then everything will go along like clockwork.” Patty's Summer Days Of course we had known all along that there was a sunrise—a mechanical sort of affair that started things going like clockwork. Explorers of the Dawn Never was the mobilisation of the Army and Navy managed with such speed; everything has gone like clockwork—just clockwork. All for a Scrap of Paper A Romance of the Present War In a letter to his friend Captain Fitzroy of the Beagle, written in 1846, Darwin says, "My life goes on like clockwork, and I am fixed on the spot where I shall end it." Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 In refutation of this familiar accusation he built up an institution almost as large as Harvard University which runs like clockwork without a single white man or woman having any part in its actual administration. Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization Such were the directions and commands, issued like clockwork amid the confusion of battle. The Monitor and the Merrimac Both sides of the story Brain working like clockwork at more than railroad speed the entire time. The Path to Honour Before two months had passed away, everything went on like clockwork. The Settlers in Canada Instantly the whole crew were in a pandemonium of excitement; but the captain’s shrill orders were obeyed like clockwork. Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers But then, on the other hand, she was easily pleased; she never grumbled, she paid her rent like clockwork. How It All Came Round Everything moved like clockwork, and with the greatest possible speed. The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service Certainly everything went like clockwork at Waverley, and though Anna fancied that Mr Forrest inwardly rebelled a little, he was outwardly quite submissive. Thistle and Rose A Story for Girls It is the fashion to speak of successful military operations as being carried out "like clockwork." With Our Army in Palestine At 10:30 that night, a signal was given and everything followed like clockwork. Winning a Cause World War Stories They had dived in this order like clockwork for some time, so that when Dory did not appear on the board the others looked about for him. Tom Slade at Temple Camp Why, they move like clockwork, like marvelous machines. Captain Jinks, Hero The whole show went like clockwork—like a Field Day. Gallipoli Diary, Volume I Every one was in the best of spirits and everything moved with customary German precision like clockwork. The Man Who Rocked the Earth They were the most efficient doctors and nurses I ever saw; everything in the hospital moved like clockwork. Into the Jaws of Death At last they had pulled rein, both of them, looking grotesquely like clockwork mechanisms, being actuated by the same impulse at the same time. Man to Man Why, you yourself, in praising those Tutonian soldiers, said that they went like clockwork. Captain Jinks, Hero It is just as well that this department was prepared for this, as it all goes like clockwork and an enormous amount of suffering is saved by their preparedness. Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Every department of the huge, pitiless machine was running like clockwork. The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis They came in like clockwork, every man knew his place, and exactly where to go. Into the Jaws of Death They all three do just what they like, have no duties but to analyze themselves, and evidently everything goes like clockwork. Told in a French Garden August, 1914 A man-of-war's boat, the ensign trailing in the glassy water, the glazed hats of the seamen bobbing like clockwork, was flying towards us. Romance Have been busy one way and another all day, but went for a walk after tea and saw over the No.— G.H. at the Casino—a splendid place, working like clockwork. Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 I break down about once in three months like clockwork—from sheer overwork. Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books She is blatantly well, and obeys all orders like clockwork; never tired; always hungry—a model. Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front He could see now the heads of the watermen who rowed, with the caps of the royal livery moving together like clockwork at the swing of the oars. The King's Achievement The men marched down quietly by themselves and everything went on like clockwork. Sketches From My Life By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha They had practised faithfully, and Grace had been so earnest in her efforts to perfect their playing that they were completely under her control and moved like clockwork. Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School The Record of the Girl Chums in Work and Athletics Everything went like clockwork, or so it afterward seemed. Campfire Girls in the Allegheny Mountains or, A Christmas Success against Odds Thus it went like clockwork, fifteen seconds to a hobo—and thirty days. The Road He was taking his own drinks all alone, like clockwork—moody but systematic. Somewhere in Red Gap "My house moves like clockwork, in which there is no comfort or rest whatever, but where each must perform his prescribed service with mathematical exactness, that the whole be not stopped." The Youth of the Great Elector Everything is working like clockwork; machinery is all in order. "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show Everything went like clockwork, except the mustard and water. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns Shep gave the word, and like clockwork four blades dropped into the water and the rowboat shot away from the dock. Out with Gun and Camera The cattle were uniform in size, and the stamping of the figure '4' over the holding "Lazy L" of Las Palomas, moved like clockwork. A Texas Matchmaker We made every camp on time like clockwork. The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days All human activity passes to and fro before him like clockwork; he alone creates freely from his inmost self the undreamed of, the untreated. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes And amid all the tragedy of his heart, and all his apprehensions concerning hollow, worldly success, little thoughts of absurd unimportance kept running about like clockwork mice in his head. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns Certainly, and without her help, the world was going like clockwork this morning. True Tilda Close to a thousand miles we've made; engines running to a hair; men all fitting into the jobs like clockwork. The Flying Legion He coughed once emphatically, and the canvas moved like clockwork. Round the Block Nek: And as we stand, like clockwork toys, A lecturer whom papa employs Proceeds to prussia Our modest ways And guileless character— Kal: Our well-known blush—our downcast eyes— Our famous look of mild surprise. The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan Every month Alex had forwarded money, regular like clockwork, and Sir George had diligently followed instructions. Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel And under the admirable superintendence of my mother everything in our family went on like clockwork. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography His horse moved like clockwork, his eye was true and his hand steady. The House Behind the Cedars Eliza's mother was so well now that Eliza had taken up her old quarters in the Strata, and the household affairs were once more running like clockwork. Miss Billy — Married I liked them so much; but, for some reason or other, my mind stopped like clockwork if I wanted to think of them and of what their lives would be, their future. Twilight in Italy Her own girls went to fashionable schools and attended sub-deb dances by the score until they came out, which they did at eighteen each like clockwork. The Wishing-Ring Man One the girls fainted and had spasms, and as soon as he found it out he took her right off; and he's just like clockwork to pay. The Minister's Charge These words set her heart beating like clockwork. Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigand's of Greece Mary wished it was a little less like clockwork. Phantom Fortune, a Novel The work of the last twenty odd hours had certainly been a pretty heavy tax on it and everything seemed to be going like clockwork. The Aeroplane Boys on the Wing Aeroplane Chums in the Tropics Our officers understood that it was going to be a difficult advance, for a bridge had to be built across a creek, but everything in our division went like clockwork. America's War for Humanity Back there, not a supper we didn't eat together like clockwork, not a night we didn't take a walk or—" "There you go again! Gaslight Sonatas We run the ranch like clockwork, and the servants are wonders; but we allow ourselves all sorts of loosenesses. The Little Lady of the Big House All knew their duties; the performance went like clockwork. The Extra Day Such a man expects you to go like clockwork, and because you are not wound up just as he is, he insults you. The Way We Live Now As Leo said, things were "going like clockwork," but I reminded him that a good start often meant a bad finish. Ayesha, the Return of She The official machinery of this private government strip also seems to run like clockwork. Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers So we went on several days, repeating the old round like clockwork. Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini She manages her house herself, and the domestic machinery goes like clockwork. Herb of Grace I've paid everything, butcher, baker, rates and all, just like clockwork. The Way We Live Now He was utterly alone on the headland, and his allies had vanished into space, while the enemy plans, moving like clockwork, were approaching their consummation. Huntingtower "She pays at the end of the month like clockwork." Jonah Except for that," he grinned, "it went like clockwork. The Firefly of France From a tree nearby the olive thrush sang like clockwork; over beyond carolled eagerly a black-throat, a myrtle warbler, a dozen song sparrows, and a hundred vireos and creepers. The Blazed Trail They saluted like miniature Guardsmen, marched with quick little steps like clockwork soldiers. Now It Can Be Told The thing goes like clockwork, as long as we have only to put our ideas on paper. The Mason-Bees And it said much for Mrs. Jasher's methodical ways that, considering the limited space, everything went—as the saying goes—like clockwork. The Green Mummy They had timed it all so exactly that it went like clockwork. The Good Soldier I go to church like clockwork, and pay my pew-rent, too, which is more than some do that gabble the most about salvation. The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields Owing largely to new army brains the administrative side of our war became efficient in its method and organization, and the armies were worked like clockwork machines. Now It Can Be Told This force is so organized and subdivided that the machinery of the school goes on day by day like clockwork. Up from Slavery: an autobiography Everything would go like clockwork in our home. He Fell in Love with His Wife They are also affected by this queer idolatry of the enormous and elaborate; and cannot help feeling that anything so complicated must go like clockwork. Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays Besides, on the stage, the programme runs like clockwork. Michael, Brother of Jerry They were a busy and well contented crew, and everything seemed to be running like clockwork, when suddenly "another dish of trouble", as Mother Atterson called it, was served them in a most unexpected manner. Hiram the Young Farmer When once this elderly babbler began to talk, he would go on like clockwork unless Mlle. Father Goriot And in the trained-animal world, where turns must go off like clockwork, is little or no space for persuasion. Michael, Brother of Jerry |
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