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Word: click (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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After three plays netted a grand total of minus-four yards, Columbia decided to go for it on fourth and 14 from their own 11, and Witkowski and his exceptional wide receiver tandem of Bill Reggio and Don Lewis really started to click...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: It's ... It's ... Underdog! | 9/20/1982 | See Source »

...home of the last crank-telephone system in the U.S. Here is how it works. Somewhere in the modest stillness of Bryant Pond, someone rotates a crank, jangling the bell on the call box and generating enough current to cause a tab with the caller's number to click down on the switchboard in the pine-paneled back room of Elden Hathaway's house, also known as the Bryant Pond Telephone Co. One of the two operators, comfortably seated a few feet from an abandoned exercise cycle and at right angles to a gun rack, responds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Maine: Don't Yank the Crank | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

...Nelson is in Texas being venerable and staying available to Tom Watson whenever the kid needs a lesson. Hogan is in Texas being difficult and hanging up on Gary Player when the South African calls for advice. ("Mr. Player, are you affiliated with a club manufacturer?" "Dunlop." "Call Dunlop." Click.) Snead last week was in Ohio being Snead and so was playing in a golf tournament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Still Suited to a Tee | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

...time during the year did the entire squad click. Hamstrang injuries to Deanne Loonin and Tracy Kunichika kept them from consistent action and the inexperience of a four-freshmen squad meant that someone always had a bad day. Yesterday the off day belonged to Elizabeth Evans and Erica Schulman...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Princeton Tops Netwomen As Evans, Schulman Fall | 5/6/1982 | See Source »

...fact, the novel's memoir form ensures that he is always on the stand. His accusations are clear, but his evidence is not easy to sort out. Eloquence is frequently drowned out by bombast, and testimony too often has the imprecision of hearsay. For all its forthright bitterness, !Click Song is guarded. It is as if its author had to keep counting to ten so that he would not explode into autobiography. -By R.Z. Sheppard

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soul on Fire | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

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