Word: ticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Invincible" Armada, 130 ships transporting 24,000 men, passed last week without incident. That day had been singled out in unofficial German predictions and warnings as Britain's Doomsday. But for yet another week, from each new day to each new hour, Britons watched the time tick past, and wondered: When? The monstrous irony of last week's waiting was the way waiting Britons had to fight their own Government in defense of the same liberties which Germany threatened. A people's revolt, reflected in both Parliament and press, singled out two Cabinet members for special attack...
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...
...last week, the 26,454-ton, 723-foot, 24-knot America was turned over to tall, horse-faced John Merryman Franklin, U. S. Lines president. As his pen lifted from the $7,328,140 mortgage, an estimated $750,000 worth of yearly interest and amortization charges began to tick. Shipowner Franklin had already paid in $4,396,629 for his ship. The Maritime Commission was standing a third of her cost, and the rest was a Maritime Commission loan. Now that he had her, what was he going to do with...
...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...