Word: tickings
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When Jack was nine years old, he was wrestling with a playmate who got his ear up close to Jack's head and heard the ticking. "What's that?" quavered the other boy. Up to that time, Jack had assumed that everybody ticked- but he told his parents about it. In 1946, his parents took him to a medical convention, where he was examined by a score or more of ear-nose-throat specialists; they found out what made Jack tick...
...periodic (and apparently harmless) muscle spasm in the soft palate, at the top of his throat. The sound of the muscle twitch is carried along the Eustachian tube, as along a speaking tube, and is heard as a clocklike tick outside. The specialists assured themselves that the muscle twitch in Jack's throat, which they could see, was perfectly synchronized with the tick, which they could hear...
Although appealing in its simplicity to the military mind, this hardly disposes of the case. Those thinkers concerned with the evolution of the species cannot fail to take notice of Mr. Husband and his cephalic tick-tock. Heretofore mankind has feared that the machines it created would someday engulf it. Hardly reckoned upon has been the spectre of human devolution into protoplasmic mechanisms. Today, the public turns apprehensively to these tight-lipped toilers in Social Relations Laboratories the country over for polysyllabic reassurance. It is to be hoped that the experts will not stand mute to the challenge...
...University authorities were baffled last night about what makes Jack Husband tick...
...year-old student at Southwestern State College in Wethersford. Oklahoma, Husband reported to his draftboard a shortwhile ago and doctors noted that there was a "tick tock" sound in his head...