Word: tickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plans v. Oil. The Government had a whole drawerful of plans for the llaneros: credit and technicians for 500 new ranches, fences, anti-tick baths, selected forage, blooded bulls, housing and plenty of roads. President Rómulo Betancourt was well aware that the oil industry, with its $8-a-day wages, was advancing from the great coastal fields into the llanos. He wanted to keep the cowboy in the saddle...
...fast, from bolting his food to racing through his piano lessons. He is also a man of property, with a lively sense of money and ownership. Eight knows he is growing up, often listens closely when adults talk to each other so he can figure out what makes them tick...
Through it all, announcers asked listeners to concentrate on the tick of a metronome placed before an open microphone on the abandoned Pennsylvania. When the ticking stopped, it would be because the bomb had gone off, and the microphone with...
What made Germany tick through six years of war despite skimpy resources and raw materials? After V-E day, hundreds of scientists, technicians and researchers from U.S. industry, started fine-tooth-combing Germany for the answer. From abandoned mine shafts, underground storehouses, and even river beds came documents, equipment and gadgets. This week officials concerned with the search lifted the veil from some of the 16,000 machines and processes that showed how cleverly the enemy had improvised and improved. Some of them...
...When Ripe. For 5 ft. 3 Stan Lipiec (he buys his clothes in the boys' department) life began at 14, when he skipped school and took to the turf. As a fourth-rate jockey in Cuba (he still gallops his nags mornings), he learned what makes a horse tick. Over & above his practical schooling, he developed a strategic sixth sense for razor-sharp hay-burners. His secret lies in knowing when to nab horses that other trainers have brought to peak performance...