Word: ticktock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bomb Goes Silent,'' read the headlines. Would Annie, as weary as other Londoners, just peter out? One edition later, the news was: "Park Bomb Ticks Again. Squad Takes Cover." All over London, people thought of Lieut. D. H. Mellor and his men, hovering over the faint, ominous, ticktock. Would the Royal Family watch the bomb go off? Would Buckingham palace, 350 yards away, lose its windows again, as it did during the blitz...
Bald, middle-aged Floyd Young, who broadcasts weather news in a dreary, ticktock, statistical monotone, is quite a radio favorite in Southern California. If he goes over his allotted time, Los Angeles station KFI cuts out its NBC network show until he finishes...
Douglas is a precision instrument himself, a man of almost fantastically unvarying habit, and of a simple efficiency that is metronomic in its ticktock exactitude...