Word: ticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...producer of last season's popular television show, "Broadway Revue," as well as a contributor to Broadway's "Call Me Mister" and "Make Mine Manhattan." His customary emphasis on dancing is evident in his latest effort. Nelle Fisher's energetic and skillful choreography is what makes the show tick. Her dancing, and that of Jerry Ross, former lead in "Call Me Mister," is fast, slick, and entertaining...
...homicidal maniac, the technical Hollywood name for someone who kills people, Cagney is pleasantly unconvincing. As a story of criminals and what makes them tick, "White Heat" is more so. But for classical cigarette-in-the-corner-of-the-mouth action, the movie is the best in a long, long time...
...Atlantic. Finally, at 73, "too old to write another serious history book," spindly, white-haired George Trevelyan wrote a little history of himself. By last week, from his brief Autobiography and Other Essays, now on British book counters, readers could learn just what makes a renowned historian tick...
...summer Sula Valley cattlemen had burned extra candles to the Virgin, and had spoken bluntly to their patron saint. Such measures had once been credited with bringing 100 inches of rain a year, but since January only five inches had fallen. Shoulder-high grass turned brown, and the scrawny, tick-infested cattle fell dead of starvation...
Chuck says that he was scared. He says he is always scared when he flies the X-1, but no one takes him very seriously. Scared or not, he waited, watching the seconds tick round the clock...