Word: clicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...something of a revolution in the camera industry. Dr. Edwin Land offered to sell his picture-in-a-minute system to Kodak in 1946, but Kodak's deliberative managers figured that the company was already too busy with seemingly surer projects, thought Land's camera would not click. Another sore subject is competition from those precise, lower-wage foreign camera makers who have won over so many camera buffs. Even though any widening of the camera market only helps to sell high-profit Kodak film-which accounts for almost half the world's film sales-Kodak...
Thorp claims, however, that in Reno and Las Vegas the casino operators took him very seriously indeed after the system began to click. The dealer's most effective stratagem is to shuffle between each hand. This destroys Thorp's carefully arrived at calculations, but the operators use it only as a last resort because it slows down the play at the table and hence the overall profit...
...said, hang up. It's the click that drives husbands...
...what doesn't click that drives moviegoers mad, and too many things in it don't click-loud. The dog bit is sometimes good for an arf, but Actor Darin and Actress Dee, who are Mr. and Mrs. in real life too, just sort of stand there most of the time and look like Tweedle Dumb and Twiddle Dee. And the production, like all of Ross Hunter's productions (Pillow Talk, Midnight Lace), is in the cheapest kind of expensive bad taste. It's the sort of picture, in short, in which the heroine wears...
...Bulldog defensive became suddenly restrictive, and their offense began to click Harvard received the kick, but despite a fine runback by Armstrong, made little progress Taylor's punt was short, and the Elis got the ball for the first time of the half at their...