Word: tick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week. "Think of it," he said in a low voice, seated in front of a wood fire in the calm of the Oval Office. "You're sitting at that desk." He pointed across the room at his working chair. Only the muted crackling of burning logs and the tick of the old grandfather clock broke the silence. Reagan's eyes were squinted, his brow tense. "The word comes that they're (the missiles) on their way. And you sit here knowing that there is no way, at present, of stopping them. So they're going to blow...
...indeed, an irritating challenge to provoke Bok to reveal something else about himself. He seems genuinely entertained when a reporter attempts to poke about and explore his personal life, to see what makes Bok tick. The president is fully aware that the interviewer isn't going to get anywhere...
While the debt bomb has still to be defused, its tick is much softer than before. "The international financial system has the capacity to handle the Latin American debt crisis," said Economist Arnaldo Musich, an unofficial adviser to Argentine President Raul Alfonsin. Robert Solomon, a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, agreed: "The countries can grow out of it. The world can grow...
...candidates have been quick to publicize that fact in an attempt to woo the support of the nation's powerful women's groups. No women are campaign managers or directors, but more than ever hold key secondtier posts. At a recent debate, the hopefuls went so far as to tick off their prominent female staff members. "I'll see you one press secretary, and raise you a treasurer," one candidate joked...
...hours tick away toward Feb. 7, and chores accomplished are crossed off lists, the easygoing mood of the late fall is changing to edgy watchfulness. Metal detectors are appearing in doorways, and if not all of them are connected yet, no one points this out to the unsmiling guards who gravely check their blank video screens, just for practice. Tomasek Juric, the impassive head of security who was once a bodyguard for Tito, flatly guarantees the safety of everyone who will be here. Even at the trials, his operatives were impressive; when someone among the Austrian downhillers...