Word: ticks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...favored investment-committee process, he consults his advisers one by one. "These are loners, people who couldn't work together," he says. "They are cynical like I am. They don't believe what they're told. Together we open companies up to see what makes them tick...
...JONES puts a musical clinker into Broadway's Christmas stocking. Set in the golden canyons of Wall Street, the libretto manages an occasional up-tick of humor about stocks, bonds and mutual funds, but in general the proceedings are as cheery as Black Friday...
...Jimmie Lunceford unit, whose buoyant two-beat style influenced such latter-day bands as Billy May's; and one of the rare curiosities of big-band history-the 35-piece, all-reed-and-woodwind ensemble of the 1940s fronted by Shep Fields, otherwise an undistinguished leader of ricky-tick commercial groups...
...Communism as a bogey. I say that if the Commies want to hold the hot potatoes of the developing countries, let them; if a thankless job has to be done, let your enemy do it. But African and other Asian nations send delegations here to see what makes Malaysia tick. If democracy has a show window in the East, this (with Singapore) is it. Do we want to throw these countries to the wolves? Confronted with a choice of evils, the wise man chooses the lesser; that's what we have to do in Viet...
...sold a staggering 2,500,000 copies-each a guaranteed package of psychic shivers. Loosely strung together on a scheme that plays the younger and older generations off against each other, it sizzles with musical montage, tricky electronics and sleight-of-hand lyrics that range between 1920s ricky-tick and 1960s raga. A Day in the Life, for example, is by all odds the most disturbingly beautiful song the group has ever produced. The narrator's mechanical progress through the day ("Dragged a comb across my head, found my way downstairs") is tensely counterpointed with lapses into reverie...