Word: clicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jump in dusty sunlight. To many an American it was the lovely, casual look of a yellow fly line falling out on running water and the first, heart-stirring tug of a hooked trout. There would be hunting soon and with it would come the cold feel and oily click of a rifle's cocking lever, the look of a deer slung across the car's radiator, the sight of ducks in mist or pheasant starting like an explosion of color from brown grass, the distant belling of a Bluetick hound...
Last week, London let the cat out of the bag: Radio Atlantic was Allied-operated from outside Germany. Its anonymous newscasters and entertainers, who fluently sniped at Nazi sore spots in authentic dialects and colloquialisms, were mostly German stage and radio refugees. Complete details about what made Radio Atlantic click remained an Allied secret-for possible use against the Japs...
When darkness fell, the click of locks and latches betrayed the arrival of the gentle nightly burglar; and often there was a series of high shrieks as the cook (who suffered from "an unfortunate hereditary malady") chased his sister around the Women's Bible School with a knife. "Being a good law-abiding Christian," said the cook, "certainly does break down a man's patience in the end." But the Presbyterian Espeys remained patient to the end. To son-&-heir John J. Espey, these scenes of Shanghai childhood seemed nothing out-of-the-way - until his parents brought...
What happened to George Paxton has become the accepted formula for success as a name-band leader. First, there must be an "angel" who can be persuaded that the leader will click. Then there are hard months of rehearsing and harder months of trying out around the country. The immediate goal is a Manhattan booking with a big radio network hookup...
Professor Bruening concluded with the statement that often in the past such charges had been leveled against him, but that they had never before been carried by the AP. He recalled that a similar accusation had been made against him last year by Click Magazine...