Word: ticking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...countdown began at 9:59 p.m. as the second hand of a clock, superimposed on the television screen and accompanied by tick-tock music, swept its way around the dial, as though a corny game show were taking place. Then, precisely at 10 o'clock, as the polls closed throughout the country, Anchorman Haim Yavin carefully read out on the state-run network the projections he had been handed half an hour earlier, which were compiled from a meticulously conducted poll of voters as they left their polling stations. The immediate TV predictions: Labor would...
Although competing in different heats, Dunster turned in the fastest time of the day, edging the Eliot boat by one second. However, both boats won by more than five lengths in their respective races, so one tick of the second hand doesn't predict victory for the Funsters, just a close race...
Officials tick off familiar reasons for the crime epidemic, such as poverty (in Dade County-which includes Miami, Miami Beach and other communities-18% of the families live on annual incomes of less than $7,500) and a nonhomogeneous population (in Dade County 45% white, 38% Hispanic and 17% black). In addition, many blame the newly arrived Cubans and a shortage of police in the fast-growing region. Miami alone has 50 positions unfilled in its 650-member force...
...Yale researchers began investigating a highly unusual cluster of arthritis cases among families living in the rural area of Lyme, Conn. Later, doctors at the U.S. submarine base in nearby New London reported several patients with a distinctive skin lesion that in Europe had been associated with tick bites. The seemingly unrelated ailments became linked when the Yale research team found that about a quarter of Lyme arthritis victims had also had the skin lesions a few weeks before their painful joint swellings began. Subsequent investigations revealed that the skin lesions, arthritis and many other ailments, including encephalitis, meningitis, paralysis...
...spectre disturbs feminists more than the thought of a splintering women's movement as the months tick away to the June 1982 deadline for the ERA. At odds over tomorrow's election and split over permanent matters of tactics and communication, they fear that the Illinois failure has factionalized women's groups beyond repair at a time when everyone agrees that feminists must unite as never before. Perhaps Ramsay sums it up best. For the women's movement to successfully implement its hopes, she says, "Feminists--all feminists, men and women--are going to have to learn to work together...