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Word: clicks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were shocked when free enterprising manufacturers chastised Mr. Macy for upholding our free institutions by bringing goods to the customers at the lowest prices. We were even more shocked when Eversharp cut off its pens, pencils, and push-pull-click-click razors from Mr. Macy. This is no time to weaken free enterprise, perhaps to destroy it altogether. What could we find in its place to hold out to the emergent peoples of the world who seek resolute, dynamic leadership? We congratulate Mr. Macy and Mr. Gimbel on their courageous struggle and we implore the men of Eversharp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Free Enterprise | 6/5/1951 | See Source »

...control panel and with row on row of dials, and a plethora of red, green, and orange lights. From here operator can control everything on inside the big concrete walls. the operator, up against the wall, is a triple tier of counters on stilts which merrily click and boast little varicolored lights their own. Along the passageway to the gray edifice are large boxes with additional controls. Cyclotron consists of three major...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: Nuclear Laboratory Boasts 100-Ton Doors Water System, 125,000 Volt Cyclotron | 6/2/1951 | See Source »

This time the play did not click. U.N. troops gave up unimportant sectors, but held where they had to, as at Chipyong. Then General Ridgway shifted his strength eastward from Seoul. The U.N. line snapped back. Armored counterattacks relieved Chipyong, smashed north from Wonju. North of Ichon, U.N. troops bashed in the west flank of the Red drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Fearful Beating | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

Gripps, as the courtly dining room of the Hong Kong Hotel is called. In the Gripps, both British and Chinese scrupulously dressed for dinner. A few blocks away, the steep streets of the Chinese quarter rang with the click-clack of wooden clogs and the incessant rattle and shuffle of mah-jongg pieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONG KONG: Keep Right On Sitting | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

Early in the last period Northeastern returned to the offensive, and Campion took a pass at his own blue line and made a solo dash against no defensemen at all, scoring on a high lift. During the rest of the game the Crimson kept pressing, but never could click...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Basketball, Hockey Teams Lose to Columbia, Northeastern | 2/7/1951 | See Source »

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