Word: clicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rings on Friday mornings with the voices of children. A little boy with a Tommy gun shoots sparks at a white-coated doctor, and a plump little girl cradles her doll. In a corner, a nurse in a starched white uniform peers through a microscope and makes a click-click sound with a small, sharp-voiced machine. She is counting in some child's blood the deadly white cells of leukemia: cancer of the blood. All the children in 1O2L of a Friday morning have leukemia, for which no cure is known. All of them, as medicine...
...only cheers in the House of Commons were voiced when a white china pitcher, containing orange juice, was carried in for the abstemious Chancellor to sip during his long speech. In the expectant silence that followed, the House could hear the click of the key as Cripps unlocked his dispatch case-the same battered red leather case which had held Britain's budgets since Gladstone...
...ranting John Rankin demanded a roll call and pleaded: "Do not shut the door of hope in the faces of those old men who fought World War I." As the ayes and nays of the final roll call droned on, the House was so tensely quiet that the click of the clerk's mechanical hand-counter was audible in the galleries. By a single vote, 208 to 207, the House had finally dredged up the courage to kill the bill...
...infield. Frank (Home Run) Baker, Jack Barry, and Eddic Collins were the other members of the famous group. These men carried the A's to world championships in 1910, 1911, and 1913. A yellowing newsclipping dated August 5, 1912, tells how Stuffy helped make the team click...
When their shots began to click, Harvard began to hustle--and hustle may mean the end of the losing streak before the last six games run out. HARVARD (53) FG F T Rockewell, rf 0 0 0 Petrillo 1 0 2 Bramhall, lf 6 1 13 Prior, c 0 5 5 Smith 4 0 8 Covey, rg 1 1 3 Croshy 7 2 16 Davis, lg 2 1 5 Gannon 0 1 1 Totals...