Word: clicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strikes out boldly for itself-for a pulsating Negro gaiety. Not into Lillas Pastia's dim tavern, but into a packed and glittering night spot, does Husky Miller make his first royal entrance. Instead of hiding out in a smugglers' den, the Carmen Jones crowd cavort and click their heels at a swanky Negro country club...
...Click, Click, Click. . . . Pleased with its new teeth, WLB clicked them menacingly in several directions. It reopened the old Montgomery Ward case by summarily ordering the company to grant maintenance of union membership; it denied maintenance of membership to the United Automobile Workers at Chrysler because of continued wildcat strikes...
...Rombauer's 2-lb. 5-oz. culinary click (TIME, July 12) is sold on a money-back guarantee ("Try any dozen recipes"). So far only two cookbooks have been re turned. Of their dissatisfied buyers, Bobbs-Merrill's President D. L. Chambers commented curtly: "They didn't follow instructions...
...sunk in bureaucracy's quicksands. But they did know that Ep Hoyt, the up-from-the-ranks editor and publisher of the popular Portland Oregonian is patient, smart, has a rare knack of making and keeping friends. They felt sure that, given half a chance, he could click...
...Honey," you say, "What's your frequency?" She turns off her set with a click that nearly breaks your eardrums. You radio-for another drink to restore your nerve and try again. This time she is more responsive. She looks your way and turns on her transmitter. She has lovely eyes. By this time she is putting out so many watts that your antenna is getting a sun tan. She wants you to come over and sit with her. You get up and come in on the beam...