Word: clucking
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Picking Up the Pieces. South Korea's progress has been economic as well as military, but the ECA officials who watch Korea's economy have not performed as effectively as the Military Advisory Group. Until last January ECA and the State Department mission did little but cluck disapprovingly at the financial shenanigans of the South Korea government. Meanwhile inflation ran rampant, and most of the republic's industry, government-run since its confiscation from the Japanese, lay unproductive. By the beginning of this year the Korean won, valued at 15 to the dollar in 1945, had dropped...
Alan Ladd plays a reporter who happens to be in a boarding house when a beautiful young woman is discovered dead there. He is struck by her beauty, and makes off with her address book before the usual cluck D. A. arrives. Using the address book, Ladd sniffs around trying to find something about the girl's family, friends, and past. In the course of this snooping, he bumps into a goodly number of unsavory characters, as well as a couple who are mildly savory...
...James R. Cluck, member of the law firm representing Seattle Air Charter, said a C.A.A. summary of the conversation between the tower and the plane ended with the tower's statement...
Columnist Elsa: Maxwell paused in her celebrity-collector's report to cluck over the "shameful and almost unbelievable" way the press has been hounding Sharman Douglas and the Marquess of Milford Haven (TIME, Nov. 29). To Elsa, the subject may as well be closed: "I am quite sure that she is not going to marry [him] . . . She is not in love with him . . . neither of them has any money...
...Eddie Arcaro (TIME, May 17), who came down to ride, said of Citation: "It's fun. I didn't have much confidence in him the day he won the Derby. Now I play a little game-I let those other horses sneak up pretty close, then I cluck to him. Wow! You can feel the power. What a gangbuster...