Word: clicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trieste the Cominform had publicly pointed a pistol at Tito, and cocked it with a click the world could hear. The man with the gun was thickset, rasp-voiced Vittorio Vidali, Cominform boss in Trieste. He had spent a quarter century in the Communist underground. Wherever he went, murder followed...
...word of it," replied Ike. It was another "No"-but every time he said it, more & more Democrats hopefully interpreted it as "Maybe." Said Florida's Senator Claude Pepper: "He may be pulling the door a little closer to him, but I didn't hear the lock click...
Even the weather was on the Crimson side. It was cool enough to let the first midfield of Dave Abbot, Bob Lange and Paul Withington play well over half the game. In fact, the only thing to worry Coach Maddux was the failure of the defense to click during the first quarter. A time out and the insertion of Don Louria tightened up this sector so that the Hub men scored only one goal in two quarters; by that time, the Crimson had garnered a five-goal bulge...
Reality at a Click. The kind of art developed in Renaissance Italy seemed to be evaporating toward the end of the 19th Century, and at the bottom of the cup lay merely the dry brown sediment of academic illustration. Moreover, the most skillful academicians were unable to compete with photography. In painting, the illusion of reality required the laborious methods of perspective and chiaroscuro. With one click, cameras did the same thing more convincingly. For painting to compete as an art form, and to have something fresh to say painters had to find a new approach to their...
...Union College, which Dr. Wise started in Cincinnati in 1875. Last week, on the Tudor Gothic campus of Hebrew Union, 1,000 leaders of Reform Judaism met to celebrate the inauguration of the college's fourth president, Rabbi Nelson Glueck, 47. Handsome, dark-eyed Nelson Glueck (rhymes with click) became a rabbi at 23, but he is better known as one of the world's foremost archeologists. He spent ten of the last 15 years in Palestine, where he discovered and mapped 1,000 biblical cities in the Trans-Jordan area...