Word: tick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Iowa cornfields. "It's what they call brittle dialogue," explains Ma Sigafoos, an entrepreneurial food franchiser who hawks home cooking under the brand name of Land's Sakes. "It's come from the East, and is working its way West, just like the Rocky Mountain tick coming the other way." A prize victim of this plague of sophistication is Farmer Herkimer ("Heck") Brown, Ma's son-in-law, who has taken up with a fast crowd in Middle City. Heck now wears E.E. Cummings T shirts, affects an "inner-city laugh" and argues that both monogamy...
...angels. They can't confidently imagine scenarios of various pressures upon him and predict how he will act. He is, from his point of view, an outsider breaking in on their world. But they are, from their point of view, outsiders who can't quite understand what makes him tick...
Normally it would be appropriate to list the things the Harvard lacrosse team will have to do today to beat second-ranked Cornell, to tick off the cliches: playing tight defense, working for good shots, and exploiting every break. But the awful truth is there is no way in the world the Crimson can beat...
...Industries denounced the program as "too little, too late." Tory Shadow Chancellor Sir Geoffrey Howe called it "a devastating admission of the government's huge mistakes in the past." The drastic austerity plan, said Liberal Party Spokesman Richard Wainwright, was the price for "years of debauchery conducted on tick [credit]"-Britain's version of the installment plan. Though left-wing Laborites denounced the White Paper as a "document of shame," other party stalwarts were more sympathetic. "Mr. Healey had to act," said the mass-circulation Daily Mirror...
...Tellier, but all it does is emphasize the already established fact that the cop is tough, singleminded and unorthodox. Verneuil pretends to offer psychological amplification, but draws back and gives the same superficial information about his hero. The director does not seem to know what makes Le Tellier tick, or at any rate, he is not sharing his information with...