Word: clicked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Midge flight is controlled by two sets of opposed, springlike muscles in the insect's thorax. Acting through elastic structures in the thorax wall, one muscle set draws the wings up, the other pulls them down. At a specific point on the upswing, the wings "click" to a fully elevated position, the elevating muscles automatically relax, and the tautly stretched depressing muscles take over. The same sequence is repeated on the downswing. The flying muscles do not need to be triggered by nerve commands. The insect's nerves serve only to start and stop the process-like...
Time accelerates abruptly. An apple tree visible from his laboratory window blossoms and bears fruit in an instant, and as the years click by on the time machine's temporal speedometer, a female store dummy in a window across the street does a perpetual striptease. In 1917 the Time Traveler stops, only to learn that the world is at war. He sets out again, but matters get worse. He sees the blitzed London of 1940, then is almost buried during the atomic blowup...
...positions had hardened. Producers called the actors "unstable transient workers" and "gypsies." Since many of them profess liberal ideals, their position was uncomfortable. Wrote New York Post Columnist Murray Kempton: "The producers include a number of passionately devoted liberals beneath whose Stevenson buttons beat hearts that click like taxi meters...
...this surgery gave only temporary relief. Blood still poured back into the heart. What Dr. Harken wanted was an artificial valve. Plastic valves have been developed by Washington's Dr. Charles Hufnagel, but they cannot be placed as close to the heart as surgeons would like, and they click audibly. Dr. Harken went to work with designers and technicians at Davol Rubber Co. in Providence, and they devised what he calls a "caged ball valve...
...were always trying to force money on him. and he had a hard time pushing it away. In one near deal, an old pal named Bernard Lowe came to Clark with a newborn song called Butterfly and an offer to assign 25% of the publisher's royalties to Click Corp.. one of Clark's publishing outfits. "I pointed out that this was unnecessary," Clark explained to the wondering Congressmen. "Lowe insisted ... I again said that it was unnecessary." But royola flowed just the same; after Clark's jockeying made Butterfly a hit, Lowe expressed...