Word: tickly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gordon Allport, one of the most important men in his field, presents his own ideas and those of others in Social Relations 119, "Theories of Personality." The course is a good one for those who want to learn what makes the human tick without first studying the behavior of his four-footed friends...
...Officer Frank Smith (Ben Alexander) are assigned to discover who put the blast on a bookie's runner with a sawed-off shotgun. The audience is avalanched for the thousandth time with infinite details of police procedure. Relief is provided in the usual Dragnet style by tight little tick-offs of "types": a dainty curator of natural history, a folksy cardsharp, the victim's hard-drinking, one-legged wife...
...which we have prepared to explain TIME'S philosophy and method of news reporting are, in effect, condensed textbooks, some teachers began using them as basic source material in their classes. Now some 600 journalism teachers on our mailing list have received such booklets as "What Makes TIME Tick" (an outline of the magazine's operations), "A Matter of Manner" (examples of TIME writing), and "How Close Can You Get to Washington?" (a description of how our Washington news bureau operates...
...dictum can come true is Manhattan's famed Psychosomaticist Flanders Dunbar. But how? It occurred to her that one way to find out was to study men and women who have defied the aging process by living a hundred years or more, see what had made them tick so long. By questionnaire and personal interviews, Dr. Dunbar and her collaborators quizzed some 300 oldsters, 20% of all the living white centenarians born in the U.S. (excluding others because of the difficulty of confirming birth records). Last week, before the Third Congress of the International Association of Gerontology in London...
...week long bobsledders from seven nations-Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, Italy and the U.S.-crackled down Cortina's precipitous run with ever-increasing speed. "Bobbing" (i.e., swinging and swaying) in unison to get the last watch-tick of speed from the razor-sharp sled runners, the sledders had knocked an impossible 4.6 seconds off the Cortina record: from 1:24.34 for the mile-long run down to 1:19.74. When the championship heats began, it was Feierabend's red sled, with the white Swiss cross on its cowling, that held the course record...