Word: clicking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MAGIC BARREL, by Bernard Malamud. A fine collection of short stories of which only two or three fail to click. They are strung on the theme that the good one man does to another forever enslaves the donor to the fate of the receiver. Most of the characters are Jewish, some of the developments are fantastic, and even the most commonplace of Malamud's yarns has an air of accidental fantasy...
...toes, tiny (5 ft., 95 Ibs.) Shari Lewis is hardly likely to inspire a spurt in the spinach market, but she can inspire almost anything or anyone else. Five times a week, more than half a million sets within range of New York's WRCA-TV click on at 9 a.m. for Hi Mom and its highly successful potpourri of sense and nonsense. For prekindergarten children, there are songs and games, puppets and magic; for mothers, there are health tips and stretch-the-budget menus. For late-rising males, who write her lots of letters, there is the elfin...
During the first period the highly reputed Gymnasts dominated the play and scored its only goal. But by the second quarter the Crimson team started to click and began to press its opponents hard...
...Lieut. Governor Frank C. Moore was persuaded to step out of a bright future in Governor Thomas E. Dewey's administration, step into the Rockefeller Government Affairs Foundation as president, a position in which he would be within hailing distance for political counsel. Political geiger counters began to click in earnest last year, when Rockefeller volunteered to help build a stadium for the soon-to-leave-Flatbush Brooklyn Dodgers. He accepted more and more invitations to women's club luncheons and rubber chicken dinners. He was appointed chairman of a state commission to study proposed changes...
...first to hear the click was State G.O.P. Chairman Judson Morehouse. A year ago Morehouse had scribbled down the names of potential candidates: Tom Dewey, onetime Attorney General Herbert Brownell, U.S. Senator Jacob Javits. onetime G.O.P. National Chairman Hall. As a longshot he added Rockefeller, who had been a dependable campaign contributor ($10,000 a year). Morehouse dispatched poll takers across the state to see which name rang bells, was not surprised when Three-Termer Dewey's bonged loudest. But chiming in second place and tolling louder with each sample was Nelson Rockefeller. Realist Morehouse tore up his list...