Word: ticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although appealing in its simplicity to the military mind, this hardly disposes of the case. Those thinkers concerned with the evolution of the species cannot fail to take notice of Mr. Husband and his cephalic tick-tock. Heretofore mankind has feared that the machines it created would someday engulf it. Hardly reckoned upon has been the spectre of human devolution into protoplasmic mechanisms. Today, the public turns apprehensively to these tight-lipped toilers in Social Relations Laboratories the country over for polysyllabic reassurance. It is to be hoped that the experts will not stand mute to the challenge...
...University authorities were baffled last night about what makes Jack Husband tick...
...Women have taken over the responsibility for making America tick," Jordan said. He suggested that the seminars should supplement courses in the curriculum by providing "Knowledge of realities." They will be open to Radcliffe students only...
...year-old Wayne Tepper of Brooklyn went to the movies one evening last week, leaving Wayne at his grandmother's house, happily playing with Granny's tiny gold wristwatch. When they came back, Wayne had a stomachache but no watch. "Wayne," asked his mother, "where is the tick-tick?" "I swallowed it," said Wayne. "You threw it out of the crib, didn't you?" she asked hopefully. "I eat it, Mommie. I eat it," said Wayne again. "Poor tick-tick...
Convinced at last, the Teppers rushed Wayne to a doctor, who put him behind a fluoroscope. There, sure enough, was the watch in Wayne's stomach. The doctor advised waiting. After three days of waiting for the tick-tick to emerge, the Teppers consulted another doctor, who thought an operation might be necessary. That afternoon Wayne's daily X ray showed a new development: the watch had descended from his stomach to his intestines. Next day the watch was returned to Granny by nature...