two o'clock
The following day saw Sutter begin an experiment of which he was rather proud . Travail had said that he had tried to tune in the noon news broadcast yesterday on the TV and had turned the set on from twelve o'clock until five minutes after . At a nearby appliance store Sutter purchased a clock control which would turn his television set on and off at any chosen time . He set the control for two o'clock , then managed to lure Travail out of the house for the afternoon by giving him an invitation he 'd received for a lecture on marine life at a local club . Next , he drove again to the H-bomb site and stood waiting in the grass-like park , watch in hand . At precisely two o'clock there came that queer staggering of earth and sky . The trees gave way to the stretch of sand ; the waves , leaden-colored and cheerless , dotted with white caps rolled up on the lonely shore .