Word: tick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...response to the threat the conservatives formed an Independent slate, presenting a fairly unified front and encouraging voters to tick off their candidates down the line...
...shadows over these poems, usually their last lines, which strain for harmony. Her primary subject is Giovanni, fawningly courting invisible men or haunting strong women who are being broken incessantly down to death. If you counted the verse where the first person hasn't slithered in, you'd probably tick off the few pleasing poems. It's sort of sentimental poetry...
...took Hall's staff more than four typewritten pages (single-line items, double-spaced) to make up a list last year of all the innovations, ideas, and administrative changes and goals that it has instituted in the last four years under Hall's guidance. Hall is proud to tick off items from the list--the administrative handbook, weekly staff meetings between the directors of all administrative departments, the Delta 2000 computer, centralizing the personnel office, and a whole host of gadgets and programs. All these items add up to a major effort to centralize, automate, computerize and economize administrative services...
...even without being substantially a scholar, Toumanoff is Olympian in a bureaucratic way. His parents were Russian nobles who left the country in 1919, and his father fought in the White army against the Bolsheviks. He is able to tick off his accomplishments in an oh-by-the-way manner: author of the SALT memo, an originator of the ban on nuclear arms in space, and the author of Ambassador Llewelyn Thompson's appeal to the Soviets, in 1967, for a collaborative effort" to solve "world problems of food, population and energy," as he puts...
...hand, but you can't drink and run. Proctors are required to recite selected gems from the Rules Relating to Harvard--it's all very blase. Also--this may be your first encounter with the game of Concentration. In this painful ordeal, students sit around in a circle and tick off their names and perspective areas of study. Maybe you should show up late...