Word: clicked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ecumenical Mobilization. Here, in the 1,081-capacity main auditorium, the Council's leaders and delegates-plus a team of five official observers sent by the Vatican-watched what Visser 't Hooft called the "ecumenical mobilization" click along like clockwork. With a simple show of hands at its first day's meeting, the Assembly voted to merge with the International Missionary Council...
...Click-Click. On the night of June 6, 1944, Major General Taylor became the first American general to invade Europe when he led his joist Airborne Division on the jump into Normandy. Taylor struggled out of his chute harness and found himself surrounded by mildly curious cows. For 20 minutes, Taylor hunted frantically for his division. Finally he heard the click-click of the toy cricket that his paratroopers used to signal in the darkness. Taylor click-clicked back, jumped over a hedge and hugged a 101st G.I.-"the finest, most beautiful American soldier I've ever seen...
Then the team began to click, thanks largely to some astute trades pulled off by moonfaced General Manager Bill DeWitt, a wily merchandiser of men who joined the Reds only last fall. In a complex deal, DeWitt got Milwaukee Pitcher Joey Jay, the first Little Leaguer to make the majors, and Chicago White Sox Third Baseman Gene Freese. Late in April, he got peppery Second Baseman Don Blasingame from San Francisco. That seemed to do the trick. Three days after Blasingame arrived, the Reds took off on a nine-game winning streak, by the end of May were in first...
...everyone grabbed pencils and peered at an array of cards. On the spotlit stage, numbered pingpong balls in a glass case began to dance like popcorn in jets of air; as the balls fell one by one through a small chute, the announcer intoned "Dinkey-doo, 22" or "Clickety-click, 66," and the air grew violet with suspense...
...freely offered thumbnail descriptions of his old Nazi comrades. His top boss, Heinrich Himmler, was the kind of man who demanded only that "I click my heels and say ja." Next came Reinhardt ("The Hangman") Heydrich, who had "a well-known failing-a personal failing. He was known for his preening and self-worship." Savagery flashed but once, in his description of Dieter Wisliceny, who had once been Eichmann's best friend and whose name he gave to his second son. But Wisliceny, before being executed, had accused Eichmann of guilt in the mass murders. Eichmann declared that...