Word: tick
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...went into hyperdrive and headed for the Whirlpool Galaxy. Captain Dart watched the hand of the c-meter. It was close to the speed of light, and, getting closer and closer. He felt no change, of course, but he knew that his personal time was already running slow. Each tick of the clock, each heartbeat took months or years of earth time. How old were his friends on earth? he wondered. How long had they been dead...
...always turn out equally well." For Whitney the U.S. held high hopes, for, as the New York Times editorialized, he "has become one of the best-rounded and versatile representatives of the modern American business world, which to the outside world is still the key factor that makes America tick...
Every businessman could tick off the chief reason for expansion-a population that was growing at the rate of 11,000 births every 24 hours, 1,000,000 new families formed every year, an expected population of 190 million by 1965. Most important, while the population grew 25% since 1939, consumer spending has almost tripled. The average household spent $2,000 annually in 1939. In 1956 it spent $5,500, and it will increase the total to $6,500 by 1965. Thus, in Florida, Florida Power & Light Co. laid down what it thought was a grandiose expansion program...
...rock-'n'-roll movie was having on Britain's notorious teen-age delinquents, the Teddy Boys. Scarcely a week goes by without some headline proclaiming the latest exploits of the "Teds.'' But nothing before had sparked them to the frenzy induced by the gross tick-tock of Rock Around the Clock...
...those grown fond of the din, the 1956 Republican National Convention may well have seemed dull, and, compared to the Democratic meeting (or past G.O.P. conventions), it was. There were no fights, no cliff-hanging situations. With hardly a discordant tock to its tick, it ran off with multi-jewel precision. At the flick of a hand from Hollywood's George Murphy, the convention entertainment director, singers of all shapes and sizes appeared to entertain the delegates. At the drop of a G.O.P. hero's name, sign-toting Young Republicans in varsity sweaters snake-danced down Cow Palace...