Word: clicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shortly before midnight on the 2nd September, 1942 . . . [German] Chief Mate Munte . . . was seated in his office in the Casquet [Channel Islands] lighthouse. . . . A slight noise-it may have been the click of the door as it closed softly-caused him to turn in his chair. Leaning against the door were two men with black faces. . . . Colt automatics, negligently poised, were in their hands...
Classy Doodler. In 1937 Breger got $30 for a cartoon from the Saturday Evening Post. Almost immediately he retired from sausages to become a professional cartoonist. His free-lance products sold fairly regularly to such magazines as the Post, Collier's, Parade, This Week, Esquire, Click, The New Yorker. Career No. 1 seemed assured, when he was drafted...
...Varsity played spotty ball, exhibiting a variety of defenses without being able to make any one of them click for any length of time. Burditt was visibly slowed up by his old injury but in the dying moments showed some snappy defensive play under the Columbia basket...
Approaching the enemy through the jungle, ominous enough in peace, multiplies nerve tension: "Tiny noises became exaggerated in our minds. Drops of accumulated drizzle would crash down onto fallen leaves like heavy footfalls. The click of a canteen cover belonging to one of our own men at some point where the trail doubled back beyond a screen of jungle sounded like a whole machine gun being...
...overseas director Robert E. Sherwood picked 29-year-old Kenneth W. Purdy, a Midwesterner who left the University of Wisconsin to become editor of the Oshkosh (Wis.) Fox Valley Free Press at 21. Then he joined the Annenberg publications, working on Radio Guide and Radio Digest. He went to Click in 1938, later went to Look, joined the Donovan Committee in November...