Word: ticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...varied assortment of strange drums, dried vegetables, bits of wood, which can produce sound combinations as fascinating as static in a transatlantic broadcast, rhythms more intriguing than the clickety-clack of a 60-mile-an-hour express. Samba music is no exception. It has its own Brazilian instruments; some tick off a steady one-two-one-two, others counter with a galloping rhythm...
...uncorked. Fire Chief Brennan wryly noted that it would have taken two complete fire departments to handle the reported holocaust. But by & large the try-out was a success. San Francisco was no longer a model of bumbling confusion. The city's air-raid precautions were beginning to tick...
...Ladies' Home Journal, etc. His empire-building had cost $42,000,000 and he had bought, started or swallowed eight newspapers with a combined peak circulation of 848,000. But, like Frank Munsey and Bernarr Macfadden, he never discovered what, besides pouring in money, makes a great newspaper tick...
Carried to death's door by the bite of a Montana tick, a laboratory worker was saved last week by a new serum. With one notable exception, this researcher was the first scientist among several score experimenting on Rocky Mountain spotted fever to recover from an attack. The other: the man who invented the serum-young Dr. Norman Hawkins Topping of the U.S. Public Health Service. His attack of fever three years ago was so '"terrible" that after his miraculous recovery he worked day & night till he produced the new serum...
Rocky Mountain spotted fever attacks at least 1,000 people a year, in certain sections kills almost all its victims. Despite its name, the disease is found all over the U.S. In the West it is carried by the wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni), in the East by the dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis). But only one in 500 ticks is infected. The ticks, which are brown, about three-sixteenths of an inch long, with eight spiny legs, carry within their bodies a virus of the family Rickettsia (named after Howard Taylor Ricketts, one of the martyred scientists). Another form of Rickettsia...