Word: clicked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...caution. His puns ("A fete worse than death") are outrageous. His hyperbole ("Carpets of so thick a nap that midgets would get lost in them and have to be rescued by dogs") is ingenious. His clichés ("The shot's not on the board, old dear") click with an exquisite remoteness in the modern ear, like ghostly billiard balls in country houses far away and long...
...CRIME he said and the words kept drumming and dinning and the poor CRIME-eds sweating and the galumphing of the press clack clack clackity-click of the typewriter all this is still...
Once Cornell's attack began to click, however, they forged quickly back from a 28-2 deficit to take the lead for good with 14:30 remaining. The shooting and ball-handling of Ron Ivkovich and the rebounding of 6 ft., 1 in. jumping-jack Gerry Szachara were key factors in the drive...
...pass, the timely lateral, and the guileful maneuver To protect glue-footed passers, some teams allow only one defensive player to cross the line of scrimmage, or else require the entire defense to count for five seconds ("one Missouri, two Missouri . . .") before charging. Because even fumble-fingered players can click off big gains under these rules, many teams require the attackers to surrender the ball unless they make a touchdown in four or five downs...
...Kowloon to Hong Kong introduces tourists to a popular local pastime: watching Hong Kong girls, wearing cheong-san dresses slit to the thigh, cope with the wind. The first impression of Hong Kong itself is of noise: the staccato of pneumatic drills, thump of pile drivers, cries of hawkers, click of mah-jongg tiles behind shuttered doors, the shouts of coolies dancing under the weight of bamboo shoulder poles. Brass bands sound funeral dirges in the narrow streets; radios whine the cacophony of Cantonese music; the rataplan of $1,000 worth of firecrackers announces a wedding, a birth...