Word: clicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Munro summed up the rest of the afternoon with the comment "they got tired before we did." Showing the effects of the heat and the constant pressure from the Crimson front line, the Jumbo defense began to wilt just as Harvard's passing began to click...
Awash up to her Plimsoll line in the Mediterranean, Brigitte Bardot, 27, was floating around lazily but spectacularly in a one-piece bikini and a leopard-spotted water mattress. Click! went a distant telescopic-lens camera, and France's sex kitten arched her back ever so cautiously. Her latest beau, Cinemactor Sami Frey, who has been a summer guest at her Saint-Tropez villa, recently blasted off another shutterbug with buckshot as he snapped away at BB from the rushes along the shore...
Young engineers set a strange contraption in the sunlight and watch it click and squirm and eerily point toward the sun. Colleagues gather to admire, their talk tangled with figures and newborn jargon. Nothing is simple at Goddard. In the corner of a control room is a small telephone switchboard attended by a bored young man. It looks as if it belonged in a flyblown small-town hotel, but it has a space-age name, SCAMA (Switching, Conferencing and Monitoring Arrangement), and it is the center of the world's only global voice communication network. By flicking a switch...
Bowling alleys, which have transformed themselves into highly respectable meccas of organized togetherness (don't say "alleys," say "lanes"), are featuring billiard rooms (don't say "pool," say "pocket billiards"), where Mom and the kids can click away in an air-conditioned, Muzaked atmosphere as wholesome as mah-jongg...
...Clickety-click: it's in the valve or valve lifter...