Word: clicks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks pundits had been adjusting their political Geiger counters to pick up every psychological click from South Dakota's Republican primary. Those 14 delegates were important, everyone agreed, but the bigger prize was the effect on voters everywhere of victory in the last state primary...
...Force gasped when the new orders began to click out of the Pentagon: salute and discipline will be smartly observed; no flight clothing will be worn away from air bases; dangerously low flying and stunting are strictly prohibited. Vandenberg also took a hand in designing the new Air Force blue uniforms-and issued stern orders on the width of trousers, length of tunics and kinds of shoes to be worn. When an Air Force bulletin advised the use of suspenders instead of belts, airmen at Wright Field dubbed him "old braces for britches." In November 1950, when Vandenberg saw that...
...sordid slew of others. Diane has a ball (doped-up good time) with all of them, but can't escape her own ritualistic premise: "There's nothing. There's nowhere, everything is empty." She ricochets from man to man in love affairs as monotonous as the click of billiard balls...
Uninvited and uncalled for, the students came to the rescue of the little Island. Their bashy ideas, however, did not click with the old timers, and the general feeling of the Islanders is to junk the plane...
...Laporte, has achieved a smoother stroke, and currently gets more "run" between each stroke than does the other boat. Haines admits, however, that he has kept the workouts down to a low stroke. When it goes up, Burns' "powerhouse" boat may have an advantage. That is, if they can click together...