Wind the clock forward to 1952 and plans were being made for the Coronation of the new Elizabeth II.

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Wind the clock back to 1979, and no one, not a single pundit, policy wonk, or economist, forecast the economic boom that came from the last such cycle.

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Wind the clock back just over four years and Fernandez had arrived in the United States to considerable fanfare after a standout performance for his beloved Spain in China.

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Manning, seeing what was happening, thought for a moment that the Giants should decline the invitation to score, run another play to wind down the clock, and then kick a field goal.

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That Germany should try to wind back the clock and start producing the low-end consumer goods that for years now it has imported from China or other cheaper centres of production?

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What would it take to wind back the clock?

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Wind back the clock to the 1930s.

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It seemed to be a matter of watching the clock wind down and thinking of a celebration for Syracuse's sixth title.

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When something gets filibustered and we take 30 hours to debate it, and then the ultimate vote is 88 to 10, is the -- was the filibuster predicated on anything else other than watching the clock wind around?

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For channel 4, they built a diorama containing a rain gauge, barometer, thermometer, wind gauge, and clock, pointed a videocamera at it, and launched the first weather channel.

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