Word: tick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congratulations to Sadat and Begin [Nov. 28] for taking the first steps in defusing the bomb, while the others sit back and listen to it tick...
Despite the difficulties, Soares could tick off some notable achievements for his 500 days. He restored good relations with NATO, won approval in Europe for Portugal's application to join the European Community and immeasurably boosted Lisbon's prestige in the West, the East bloc and the Third World. He negotiated a series of major loans, including nearly $1 billion in aid from the U.S. At home, all but four of 78 pieces of Socialist legislation presented to the assembly had been passed. Among them: a comprehensive agrarian-reform law, a measure providing compensation for the nationalization...
...Russian demand for ships an omen that the U.S.S.R. planned to buy more gram than would be necessary with a good harvest, but it lifted world freight rates by 15%,which should also have produced alarm. Finally, U.S. prices of wheat and corn took a slight upward tick from August through October, a rare happening at harvesttime, when prices are almost always depressed. The only explanation: large foreign purchases...
...Minutes tick away and the deadline nears. At midnight, Oct. 2, a key section of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty expires. After that the U.S. and the Soviet Union will no longer be bound by the ceilings on offensive, strategic weapons to which they agreed five years ago. Despite Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's meetings in Washington last week with President Jimmy Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, there is virtually no chance that a new arms accord can be reached before the deadline...
After Cockroft had kicked a 38-yarder with 55 seconds left in regulation time to give the Bruins a 27-24 lead, Patriot kicker John Smith came on with one tick on the clock and sent the game into sudden-death overtime with a 34-yard field goal...