Word: clicks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gentle summer breezes played along the shoreline of Green Lake, Wis., across the rolling carpet of the 18-hole golf course, the tennis courts, the spacious yacht basin. But not the click of a driver was heard, or a splash from the water. Sitting on folding chairs under the oak trees were 800-odd men, women and children celebrating with hymns, prayers and well-chosen words the tenth anniversary of a summer gathering place for American (Northern) Baptists...
...visitor gets in a taxi. "Click." Twenty-five cents to start with, and then 30?, 35?, 40?. A few blocks and it's a dollar. He gets out and pays the driver...
...recorded show called Omaha After Dark, Loughnane and Station Manager Todd Storz aired some of the gleanings of the remarkable wristwatch, brought to listeners the actual click of illegal dice, the clink of ice in illegal highballs, and the voices of illegal nightclub owners and employees. One waitress was heard to reassure Loughnane that her place had not been raided in more than a year; an owner answered a question about gambling by saying: "Sure, downstairs. Just go on down. You know everybody down there...
...difference between Matisse and Adams. Against the stiff competition of Robert McLean's Evening Bulletin (circ. 693,104-"In Philadelphia nearly everybody reads the Bulletin"), he kept the Inquirer growing, started Seventeen, a fashion magazine for teenagers. (He also decided that two movie magazines, Radio Guide and Click, a picture magazine, ate up more hard-to-get paper than they were worth, killed them.) While the Bulletin added readers with its quiet, unexcited coverage, the Inquirer picked up its own circulation by digging itself deep into Philadelphia civic life, in 13 years has almost doubled its circulation...
...Bill Levitt had seen his boys under pressure. He was pleased with what he saw. The former cox and captain of the 1950 varsity crew had taken these six last fall, taught them all they know about crew, and put them into a racing shell. He hoped they would click. And they...