Word: clicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sympathetic tolerance. Fairbanks authorities have sternly resisted attempts to close down blonde Big Babe, and the rest of the girls who keep open house along the "line." Alaskan liquor stores sell a clear, malevolent fluid called Spirits of Peoria, a 190-proof potion calculated to make the mildest man click his heels and bay like a malemute...
...when it flapped, revealed a startling blue-and-white-checked undergarment and a pair of tan brogues. He is the leader of millions of his fellow Nigerians who want independence from Britain. Some call him the Negro Gandhi, the jungle George Washington. His name is Nnamdi Azikiwe (rhymes with click away); he is the acacia thorn in the British lion's paw, the Bertie McCormick (see PRESS) of the Niger Delta, a coconut grove Jim Farley, and one of the few people in the world who got a high opinion of the U.S. from washing dishes in a Pittsburgh...
...English captions, the over-all result is admirably suited for a showing at Flushing Meadows and the well-worn story should be only a slight drawback. But disregarding its cosmopolitan nature and chalking up the well-ballyhooed sex angle to an over-zealous press agent, there remains little to click any castanets over. Though the New York Times blushingly called it "as lusty a picture as you could wish," Les Brown had a better term a few years ago. Down at the Old South right now, "Bizet...
...ferry across the Volga. One does not have to be long on the Volga to realize that its part in Russia's traffic is about what the Mississippi's was to ours in Mark Twain's day. Remembering Mark Twain made a lot of things suddenly click. For as the Volga is like the Mississippi of his pilot days, so these people living along it are like the free-&-easy, friendly Midwesterners of his books. There were neat, small, wooden houses with Victorian fretwork along the eaves, lace curtains and begonias and geraniums in the windows...
...might get the atomic bomb (a German scientist escaped from Russia last week said they would soon have it). If equalization took place in this way, Washington would probably learn about it from Geiger counters capable of "hearing" radioactive particles thousands of miles away. When those Geigers begin to click, war will be nearer...