Word: ticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Berg, who seems to like the warm weather, twirled his second shutout in four days, and was in superb form. Sixteen straight batters faced him and sat down before Husky left-fielder Hank Bartelloni bunted toward first. Berg made the play to Bob Slattery just a tick after Bartelloni had crossed the bag. It was a hit beyond doubt. The next batter promptly banged into a Berg-to-Gleason-to Slattery double play...
Brown turns scarlet when sportswriters call him Precision Paul. Nevertheless, it is his passion for punctilio that makes this year's Ohio State team tick like a Swiss watch. In a game, he forbids players to lie down during time out, forbids his water carrier even to come on the field...
...figure represents an all-time high for war spending. In its simplest terms it means that with every tick of the clock the United States is feeding the war march $2473--more than the average war earner makes in an entire year...
...know tonight, as we stand here, that the walls of this hall shut out a horrible vision of human suffering. All over the world, with every tick of the clock, hundreds of people are dying. Everywhere, as we talk, men are maiming, mutilating, burning each other and blasting each other into all eternity. Women are being buried with their babies in their arms under the ruins of their bombed homes. Whole peoples grow sunken-eyed, bare-boned, rickety-easy preys to pestilence, after famine. And with every breath we take in, some starved child breathes out its last...
...PHANTOM LADY- William Irish-Lippincott ($2). While a convicted murderer watches the minutes tick away in the death house, his best friend, sweetheart, and a detective conduct a death-studded search for a shadowy lady who holds the life-saving alibi. An exciting chase with a stunning climax...