Word: tick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case of the Russian barbarians shooting down of the plane. We heard it even more in the case of Afghanistan, right? America was on strong moral grounds there. It squandered it all for what? For a little pipsqueak of a country that was no more than a little tick in its side. It's like paying a massive moral price for a reward that is worthless. Purely from a pragmatic, realistic point of view-seeing the moral strength the United States has vis-a-vis its would enemy Russia-it can't get up in the U.N. anywhere and talk...
...acknowledged that over the years pressures from Band seating and increasing tick ets sold to graduate students has decreased the number of good seats available to undergraduates. When the game is at Yale, students as well as alumni, have a better chance of getting good seats because the Yale bowl at 71,000 seats is almost twice as big as the Harvard stadium, Page said...
...sold a staggering 2,500,000 copies-each a guaranteed package of psychic shivers. Loosely strung together on a scheme that plays the younger and older generations off against each other, it sizzles with musical montage, tricky electronics and sleight-of-hand lyrics that range between 1920s ricky-tick and 1960s raga. A Day in the Life is by all odds the most disturbingly beautiful song the group has ever produced. At the end, the refrain, "I'd love to turn you on," leads to a hair-raising chromatic crescendo by a full orchestra and a final blurred chord...
...more shopping. Lewis will compete at the World University Games in Canada in July, and in August he goes to the first official World Championships in Finland. Records could fall anywhere along the way. "I'm four inches away in the long jump," he says coolly, "one tick from the world record in the 100 and three ticks in the 200. They're all within reach, I think...
Writers have similar problems of finding the right style. Berger, once again, has found the solution. His work may not win any prizes for the celebration of the indomitable human spirit, but The Feud is an affectionate cheer for all the peeves, itches and dreams that make most people tick...