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Bomb squad Detectives Joseph Lynch and Ferdinand Socha arrived. Lynch cut a hole in one corner of the buff-colored bag. Several sticks of dynamite were exposed. The tick-tick-tick continued. Lynch stepped back, remarked: "It looks like the real goods." At that instant the bomb went...
...treated with the contempt which he deserves. Many and lurid are the names for a new boy: new brat, new squit, new scum, fresh herring. Richest and nastiest is the group of epithets schoolboys apply to townies, the lowest form of animal life, or schoolmates they dislike. Samples: swine, tick, cad, oik, lout, drip, squirt, scug, goof. Townies often retaliate: e.g., their name for schoolboys of Durham University is varsity tits...
...toddling moppets long enough to wed, contractually* for speed (TIME, Dec. 28, 1936), Research Engineer Rudolph Frederick Mallina. She now has an energetic 3½-year-old daughter of her own, but still spends most of her time trying to find out what makes other people's infants tick...
...lofty official chamber, his long, sensitive hands clasped and unclasped in thought, to Cordell Hull's ears came only the muffled tick of the ancient grandfather clock that has been in the Department of State offices since 1777. But the tick may well have seemed like the tick of a timebomb. He had just received a blunt warning-a demand by Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg that Mr. Hull's reciprocal trade agreements be investigated by the Senate...
...Tick-timed, effectively voiced, the Dewey speech bettered his flying start. Yet at week's end, after carefully considering everything, wise oldsters of the Republican National Committee definitely ticketed young Mr. Dewey for the No. 2 spot in the 1940 G. O. P. race. General (and damning) opinion was: Tom Dewey has no chance for the Presidency, but will make the best Vice Presidential nominee either party has had since Theodore Roosevelt...