Word: ticking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...glimpses of this person in the book who, despite all the self-actualization, writes as if she believes that what Julie Andrews or Mahatma Gandhi or the Gnostic Gospels have to tell us is more worthwhile than what makes her tick. Fortunately, one of the world's most interesting women is incapable of writing an uninteresting book, even when she summarizes most of the extant literature on the inner child. A $700,000 advance can buy a lot of self-esteem. But if that's not enough, if only the women whose lives were touched by Steinem were...
Gays would not feel a need to publicly declare their self-view if it weren't for such groups as Wasinger belongs to taking it upon themselves to tell us how we tick, what we feel, as if we cannot make that determination for ourselves...
...their final destination at the John Harvard statue, the group entered into a rivalry reminscent of a Miller Lite advertisement, alternately yelling "Tick" and "Tock." A crowd of approximately 25 amazed and intrigued students followed the group to the front of University Hall...
...Meanwhile, he was seen so often in the company of his deputy, Clyde Tolson, that stories constantly circulated that the two bachelors were lovers. (Gentry leaves unresolved the question of Hoover's homosexuality and generally is better at describing what the director did than at analyzing what made him tick...
...Tick-Tock...