Word: adds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Add to this the legion of drunken misfits who roam the highways, maintaining their licenses through "friends" at the Registry of Motor Vehicles, and sure enough, these cats start killing off a lot of kids who have never even terrorized a small Midwestern town. So they get all shook when they get hit with a big suit. Their first reaction? Outlaw motorcycles...
...talkative, or the reverse. Other danger signs: depression and seclusion, hypersensitivity to little slights and insults, a change in normal patterns of eating or sleeping, uncontrolled outbursts of temper, disorganized thinking and morbid interest in such potential tools of destruction as guns or knives. Psychiatrists are quick to add that the appearance of even all those symptoms does not necessarily mean that a man is about to turn killer. But the symptoms do mean that he is in need of help...
Filling the Gun Gap. Created during last fall's "gun gap" to add desperately needed firepower to the ground war, McCoy's Navy consists of three World War II-vintage LSMRs (for Landing Ship Medium, Rocket) and the only inshore-fire-support ship in the world, the U.S.S. Carronade (aptly named for an 18th century cannon). Originally designed to pulverize beachheads for invading U.S. Marines, each ship mounts a battery of 5-in. rocket launchers and a single 5-in. naval rifle. Since the Marines had already landed when McCoy's Navy showed up last April...
...must flash like lightning," admonishes Wolfe. "It must not be delivered tardily or with the hesitancy which is so often engendered if one is wondering whether or not the last syllable is to be inflected. Again, a slightly mangled pronunciation sometimes gives the insult a macabre quality; it may add to its stunning effect on the insultee-and thus allow you to escape before full comprehension dawns...
Murphy said the value of the institute lies in the long period of time the chiefs would have to discuss their mutual problems, and the availability of Business School professors to add another viewpoint. For example, he said that may chiefs have strong but conflicting feelings on the distribution of police officers: some value the foot patrolman, while others rely on squad cars...