Word: tickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even before Johnny is in kindergarten, his parents anxiously tick off each signpost of normality, and once he is in school, his teachers want him above all to integrate, to be as well-rounded and easy-to-handle as an apple. As he grows older, the boy can be measured scientifically so he will continue to be a round peg in a round hole. For example, a test will undertake to show not only how good a scientist he might become, but also how likely he is to betray his country. If he wants to be a journalist...
...Soldier's First Duty. In a speech to Citadel cadets the President compared the responsibility of a soldier yesterday and today: "Today, a man to do his duty in the military services must study humanity first of all-what makes humans tick...
...politicians never tire of telling it in all its phases. Now an oldtime rewrite man has moved in, read 7,000,000 words of evidence about Lincoln's murder, and recast the familiar facts with startling, tabloid immediacy. In the course of his relentless, clock's-tick chronicle of the crucial hours, Jim Bishop, once of the New York News and Mirror and now editor of the Catholic Digest, sticks to police-blotter facts-and makes the state of the nation's security on April 14, 1865 look appalling...
...West: "Our democracy is like a reluctant knight going out to engage the dragon. His armor is on awry and he drives out his horse with no flash of enthusiasm, but somehow in the end the dragon poops out and our knight wins." He glibly switched metaphors to tick off one of democracy's own current ailments: to him, Senator Joseph McCarthy may be viewed without hysterical wailing, as "a bad skin disease, rather than a cancer." Inevitably, onetime Presbyterian Parson Thomas reflected on the day-dreamy luxury of turning back the clock: "I am not such an idiot...
...went on to tick off a long list of other benefits farmers had received from the 83rd Congress, ranging from surplus-disposal laws to drought relief. Argued the President: "To continue the advance along the course charted 21 months ago, we need a legislative and an executive department both guided by leaders of the same general political philosophy . . . Our national welfare will be best served by a Republican-led Congress...