Word: tickly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Internal Tick. Skinny Arnie Sowell, the light-foot Pitt Negro with elastic legs, was back in his element, his disappointing summer outdoors and his heartbreaking failure at Melbourne now behind him. He hardly wasted a glance on last year's winner, halfback-sized Tom Courtney of Fordham. On the broad lanes and long straightaways of outdoor tracks, where Courtney could get his weight rolling, things had been different. Sowell had been second best. In the Garden Arnie was at home...
Listening only to the tick of his incredibly accurate mental stopwatch, Sowell glided over the boards, drifting well off the pace. Courtney and the Pioneer Club's Harry Bright drove ahead, hoping to steal the race. But 2½-laps from the tape, Arnie's watch told him it was time. He floated wide on a turn, kicked downhill into his fluid-drive sprint, and the race was over. Sowell was almost 4 yds. in front of Courtney and still moving away when he finished. Time: 1:50.3, a new indoor record, two-tenths of a second faster...
...went into hyperdrive and headed for the Whirlpool Galaxy. Captain Dart watched the hand of the c-meter. It was close to the speed of light, and, getting closer and closer. He felt no change, of course, but he knew that his personal time was already running slow. Each tick of the clock, each heartbeat took months or years of earth time. How old were his friends on earth? he wondered. How long had they been dead...
...always turn out equally well." For Whitney the U.S. held high hopes, for, as the New York Times editorialized, he "has become one of the best-rounded and versatile representatives of the modern American business world, which to the outside world is still the key factor that makes America tick...
Every businessman could tick off the chief reason for expansion-a population that was growing at the rate of 11,000 births every 24 hours, 1,000,000 new families formed every year, an expected population of 190 million by 1965. Most important, while the population grew 25% since 1939, consumer spending has almost tripled. The average household spent $2,000 annually in 1939. In 1956 it spent $5,500, and it will increase the total to $6,500 by 1965. Thus, in Florida, Florida Power & Light Co. laid down what it thought was a grandiose expansion program...