Word: tick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then again, she was married and I'm not. The way I see it, I've got two, maybe three years left before I have to start heeding the tick of the statistical clock. By then, I'll just be starting graduate school. I can see it now, sandwiched between hours in the Law Library and reading up on torts in my room, I can schedule search and destroy sessions in which I'll telephone, write to, visit or similarly network all the eligible males of my acquaintance in the hope that one of them will finally crack. Actually, things...
...final days of the campaign tick away, the level of political tension engendered by the battle can only increase. So too will the diplomatic challenge for the U.S. To the Administration's credit, policy toward the Philippines is more coherent than that on any other recent foreign challenge of similar magnitude. In contrast to the situation in Iran during the final days of the Shah, U.S. diplomats are in close contact with the opposition. Unlike Central America, the Philippines has created no major divisions between Congress and the White House, nor among the various Executive departments...
Harvard toasters are the only ones ever made that fancy themselves to be deadly time bombs when in use. Insert a few English muffins, heave down the industrial-spring-loaded lever, and ...Tick-Tick-Tick. I wonder what would happen if some law student accidentally left one of these things in his mailbox...
...Tick-Tick-Tick. The bomb squad races in, sweating profusely in their shrapnel-resistant suits...
Even though Back to the Future takes full advantage of its ability to make us laugh, it has its darker side as well. The film opens with a shot of Doc's house in which every nook and cranny is filled with clocks--clocks that tick the future into the present. Time, in fact, enters into every aspect of the movie, becoming so pressing an issue that the small clocks in Doc's house are transformed into a huge clock tower from which he precariously hangs in his attempt to send Marty back to 1985. Back to the Future explores...