Word: clicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...team that Brown will send against the Crimson squad tomorrow is definitely of the in and out variety. Heralded as one of the top fives in New England, the Bruins failed to click after their 58 to 34 trouncing by Harvard early in the season, and since then have lost to Tufts, Yale, Holy Cross, and Connecticut, while beating Connecticut once, Tufts once...
...Mencken and G. B. Shaw. Some of its headlines (such as its 1929 crash flash, WALL STREET LAYS AN EGG, and its STIX Nix Hix Fix, when bucolic cinemas' flopped in the hinterland) have attained a kind of backstage immortality. So have flopperoo, push over, palooka, scram, to click; and such trade phrases as "boff" (a variation of sock or punch) for smash hit, "preem," as a verb meaning to stage a premi...
...Toughest sound to fake is applause. And no hocus-pocus has yet matched the true click of a closing door. Result: studios keep large collections of various-sized doors to open & shut...
...Guard Bob Suffridge (Tennessee). Redheaded Steve Van Buren (Louisiana State), who breaks ten seconds for 100 yards, stops on a dime, runs either around or over a tackler with his 207 lbs., is perhaps the best halfback in the game. Quarterback Roy Zimmerman (San Jose State) makes the club click...
...stone steps, the tall, booted, hawk-nosed Earl watched a company of soldiers, sailors and airmen click to "present arms," heard a military band play the final strain of God Save the King. From the distance came the deep booms of a 19-gun salute. The Earl, plainly enjoying this time-honored parliamentary pageantry, smiled, then turned and warmly shook the hand of Canada's chunky, frock-coated Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. A braid-heavy honor guard escorted the Earl and the Princess inside...