Word: tick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Seeger ever fancied himself as another Guthrie (and I doubt he ever did), he has for a long time made himself perfectly clear: his mission is not to be Woody, but to inspire the love for people's songs and the rugged America which made the boy from Oklahoma tick. And Seeger has a further mission, which is political. He wants to keep alive the faith of those who think things can be changed for the better, and to light a fire under those who don't think there's any need to change things around...
...straight A's. Encouraged, he moved on into black studies, logic, electronics and criminology-all courses specially sent to him by Southern Illinois. S.I.U. waived tuition and provided tapes of lectures. Taylor chose psychology as his major, "mainly because I wanted to discover what made me tick...
Pierre Waltz, 40-year-old chief executive of the $142-million-a-year Société Suisse pour l'Industrie Horlogère (SSIH) has made pulses tick faster throughout the Swiss watch industry. In the two years since he took over at SSIH, which makes Omega, Tissot and other watches, he has fired hundreds of workers to cut costs, merged with the country's major producer of inexpensive watches to meet increasing competition from the U.S. and Japan, bought out one U.S. firm (Hamilton) and entered into a joint venture with another (Optel, a liquid-crystal...
...month's up-tick in the price index, of course, means no more intrinsically than one month's downturn did in the years when inflation was steadily accelerating. Yet the July performance was disquieting, both because of the Nixon Administration's seeming inability to stop food prices from soaring and because some other prices caused trouble too. Interest rates on mortgages, premiums on insurance, transportation costs, and prices for housing, used cars, carpets, gasoline and liquor all advanced faster than usual, or failed to show normal seasonal declines...
...James G. Elaine Society's sole purpose is to keep outsiders out of Oregon. Besides advertising the rain, it publicizes Portland's high crime rate, cases of tick paralysis and an occasional quicksand alert. It chose its name because of its "antique flavor" rather than for any attributes of Blaine himself (1830-1893), a Republican Speaker of the House, Senator, presidential nominee and twice Secretary of State...