Word: clicks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week the Indonesian government took up Fatmawati's formal request for a divorce. She picked up her bags and her five children and left Freedom Palace. With a what-did-I-tell-you click of the tongue, the clubwomen promptly petitioned for a new law that would require Presidents to get parliamentary permission before marrying in office. That, they thought, might at least deter President Soekarno from taking his full limit of wives, which is four...
Smiles are rarely seen in Moscow's streets. Below the clamor of traffic there is the sound of millions of shuffling feet, never the click of a woman's shoe. Occasionally, there is a whiff of rank perfume (called Kremlin and sold in bottles shaped like the Spassky clock tower), but no man turns for another glimpse of a trim ankle. Lovers do not stroll hand in hand in Moscow. There is no searching of faces, and a person looked at will turn away. Gorky Street may be as crowded as Fifth Avenue at lunchtime, but there...
Here, far from the maddening Yard, in a room where typewriters click faster than the tongues of women, we pause to wish a day of good Thanksgiving to all at Harvard and at its fringes, to the high and the low, to President Pusey and the freshmen who know not his name to students who approve the CRIMSON and those who do not, to the advisers of Stevenson and those who advise the advisors. Without fear or favor, we give greeting to seniors sleeping peacefully in Widener's stalls, to professors who give lectures at the College and those...
...short, but the Little Old Man [Phil Rizzuto] comes up with a good job for me and I shift the second baseman [McDougald] to third and put the Army guy [Martin] where he belongs, on second with the Old Man [Rizzuto] back on short and we click pretty good...
Even on Kentucky bluegrass our heifers merely rear on front legs, click hind hooves . . . What crazy grass was Irvington Roamiss Pear reared...