Word: clicked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would have saved her a great deal of time and expensive equipment in solving the problem of why all quail and poultry eggs hatch out on the same day, nay, the same hour as their siblings [May 27]. It is all very wonderful to know the embryo can "click" prior to hatching, but I am skeptical of the click's effectiveness in communicating the time of emergence. The latter is based entirely on the period of incubation, which is never begun by a smart hen of any of the gallinaceous birds until the entire clutch is laid. Grandmother kept...
...tieless Chinese businessmen in bright Hawaiian sport shirts gather to chiao-chi-transact business in as pleasurable a manner as possible. In clubs such as the Chins Shan (Green Mountain) and Lo-t'ien (Happy Sky), the walls echo to the rattle of mah-jongg stones and the click of poker chips on black teak tables. Plenty of business is consummated as well...
Calisher plots, obviously, do not readily synopsize-like boiled water, they leave no residue. But the reader can enjoy a Calisher journey even though, like her trolley line, it ends up nowhere. The Calisher ear for words is poetical, and sometimes the click of wheel on track forms recognizable rhythms: "The spirit of picnics and cemetery visits is always feminine...
...impressive vote. In preparation, her lieutenants were busy last week planning a "national assembly of Peronismo" to be held in Tucumán, which is expected to rally 3,500 delegates to her support. El Lobo (The Wolf) is still unimpressed. Commented one photographer as he watched Isabelita click into the house on the Calle French: "There goes the Little Red Ridinghood that El Lobo is going...
...Harvard six flies to Ithaca with new confidence based on a strong post-Christmas showing. If the ever-changing Crimson lines can click, it might be an amazing night...