Word: ticks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost two hundred years had passed and the British still ruled India. But now it was only a matter of days until Aug. 7. Then the clock would tick out the minute when the will of one stubborn little man would be pitted against the Empire...
...Russia Reynolds attended the famous banquet of 23 courses ("the three high spots were perhaps the mushrooms fried in sour cream, the sturgeon in champagne and the pilaf of quail") at which Stalin asked God to bless Franklin Roosevelt. Between courses Author Reynolds found time to tick off some neat thumb nail impressions of Soviet leaders...
...elegant greystone Embassy on Washington's 16th Street, Russian Ambassador Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff (pronounced Lit-VEEN-off) heard the seconds tick. Watching the dogwood bloom on the lawn, he could picture the Russian spring: no Russian, however far from his homeland, can forget the feathery pastels of white birch and oak, the woods alive with the calls of the zhavornok and the drozd, the heady smell of mushrooms and flowers sprouting in soil musty-damp from the winter's snow...
Last week, as the Vanderbilt tournament progressed in tick-tock silence, it began to look as if Mrs. Sobel's sharp red nails would scoop in the most important championship of all. Playing with three young Manhattanites (Sam Fry Jr., Benedict Jarmel and 27-year-old George Rapee), her Cavendish Club team survived the qualifying rounds and knock-out matches (116 boards), came up to the final the favorite. The other finalist was the New York Bridge Whist Club (Lee Hazen, Richard L. Frey, S. M. Stayman...
...advantages of being a member of "Cambridge's only breakfast table daily, serving the public 24 hours a day," are manifold. As a News candidate, you will find out what makes the University tick and will gain entrance to places ordinarily barred--ahem--from the student proletariat...