Word: ticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Very fitful, in the current Room Service, is the fun spawned of a shoestring producer living on tick with his cast while desperately trying to snag a backer. The whole first act is drearily obstreperous-for one reason because the cast plays straight to the audience, as though the backer could be found in the sixth row center. In the second act, both the play and the playing take on considerably more life. There is some funny pantomime, notably of the producer and two of his associates wolfing their first square meal in days. But there is never the faintest...
...Philip boasts of the quantity of "Q fever" germs that one of his favorite ticks often contains. The juice of this tick can be diluted 500 billion times and still carry the disease...
...ancients believed, says Dr. Philip, that mashed ticks were a useful aphrodisiac, and Pliny the Elder recommended tick blood as a depilatory and as a curative ointment. There may be something to this. Recent tick-workers have shown that ticks contain an antibiotic that inhibits the growth of many bacteria...
...established tick, Dr. Philip explains, is so pleased with his situation that almost nothing will force him to let go. He will hang on grimly, even while being killed by insecticides. He can drop away any time he wants to, but if pulled roughly he is apt to commit suicide by abandoning his mouth-parts...
Diplomatic Dynamite. As the TV camera flicked to a map on the wall behind him, Dulles began to tick off some of the areas where Communism is on the offensive. He started with Korea, pointing out that one objective of the Communist attack there was to make easy Russian or Chinese conquest of Japan and Japan's vast industrial capacity...