Word: clicking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bear it!" wailed Terrorist Mio Kraj. "The click-click of that metal flap gives me no sleep night or day. The eye that peers through that peephole hypnotizes me. It makes it impossible for me to eat or sleep. I can't bear...
...jailbird to see out, give him a feeling of proximity to other human beings as they pass up & down the corridor. In Europe cell doors are solid, cheap, have a peephole closed by a metal flap. Day & night, usually at 20 minute intervals, the prisoner hears the flap click, knows that he is being peeped at by his guards. This makes most prisoners nervous, has come to be accepted as a prison commonplace. In Marseille last week one of the Balkan terrorists arrested after the assassination of Yugoslavia's King Alexander finally cracked under the strain of being peeped...
...Needles click and inches of skirt or sweater grow under flying fingers, as Radcliffe goes yarn-minded. They are to be seen everywhere, these knitters, whisking their work out of roomy chintz bags, on the steps of Agasaiz, in the Writing room or Lunch room, even in the library with their eyes glued to a book as they knit, and possibly even as to whisper it in the back row at a ecture...
...first tally came in the opening period on a plunge through the line. Leverett then tightened up until the last period, when the Puritan blocking began to click, paving the way for Hindle to score again twice, once on an eight yard run off tackle and once on a thirty-five yard cutback...
...responded with a minute-long discourse on the virtues of toast made with Macy's automatic electric toaster. Finally when May requested the creature to raise its arm and fire the pistol, the arm went up, the metal forefinger pulled the trigger, the firing-pin fell with a click. Professor May explained that store officials would not permit him to use blank cartridges...