Word: tick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that one partner, Jon Rex Jones, estimates could be delivering gas to customers in six months. But he insists that he will not connect them to a pipeline unless he is certain of getting $2 per 1,000 cu. ft. for the gas. In addition, producers in Houston readily tick off examples of fields where they are sure gas exists in commercial quantities, but where they will not drill. Reason: unless the interstate price goes to $2, they fear drilling would not be profitable. George Mitchell, head of the Texas association of independent oil producers, mentioned one 16-million-acre...
...these old companions in adventure from bygone matinees. Director Aldrich, a veteran purveyor of thrills in all the low-caste genres, knows how to work this territory, nipping lightly on the nerve endings in the early going, then settling down for a protracted gnaw at them as the clocks tick toward the deadline set by the blackmailers...
...talking out loud after a mute childhood. She speaks in short, half-connected bursts, yet Beckett's stingy way with words captures her existence fully:"... parents unknown ... unheard of... he having vanished ... thin air ... no sooner buttoned up his breeches... she similarly... eight months later ... almost to the tick ... so no love ... spared that ... no love such as normally vented on the ... speechless infant..." In a phrase as simple as "spared that," Beckett blends savage humor and poignancy...
...favorite neighbor. Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.-Eagle Scout, football hero, Yale Law School alumnus, 13-term Congressman, House minority leader, accidental President -never aspired to the office he inherited. Since Aug. 9, 1974, his strengths and faults have been on public display. If what makes Jimmy Carter tick still remains obscure to millions of Americans, Ford is no secret to anyone...
Culturally, Carter has very little in common with rednecks, but he understands what their fears are, what makes them tick. He understands that they want to think well of themselves and appeals to them to do so. He still has enough redneck in him so that they do not see him as a total alien. For all his sophistication, he has never quite shaken his discomfort in posh surroundings. In the Governor's mansion in Atlanta, visitors were often surprised to find him padding around the elegant halls in bare feet...