Word: ah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rolling in the road behind. "Stop!" he called to the driver, "you've hit someone!" The van pulled to a halt. The guards leaped out, carefully locked the door behind them and ran toward the injured man. As they neared, he stood up and fled. "Ah, well," said one of the guards, "he couldn't have been hurt much...
...Jones' seting for "A Man Who Married a Dumb Wife," which introduced a new concept of stagecraft to America in 1915. Other designs by Jones include sets for the John Barrymore "Hamlet" in 1923 and for several of Eugene O'Neill's plays, including "Mourning Becomes Electra" and "Ah, Wilderness...
Later he drove on to Campagnola. While he was eating a hearty lunch accompanied by a quart of sparkling Lambrusco, a Communist leader burst into his room. "How old are you?" snapped the Red. "Forty-eight," answered the Minister of the Interior, looking up from his meal. "Ah," sighed the Communist, "You made me lose a bet. I just laid down a thousand lire that you were 52 at least." Scelba's bodyguard, who this time had managed to stay by his side and were fully expecting an assassination attempt, sighed with relief, and Scelba took...
Carbon 14, faintly radioactive, is formed in the upper atmosphere by cosmic rays. AH carbon in living things contains a tiny amount of it, but after the death of an organism, its carbon 14 gradually disintegrates; half of it disappears in about 5,800 years. The amount that has disappeared is a reasonably accurate measure of the object...
...changing talented Author Mary McCarthy from a sharp satirist into a hollow groaner. Taut little early McCarthy opuses such as The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt and Portrait of the Intellectual as a Yale Man would never have let a female character get away with a remark like "Ah, you hate it because it is mine. You would like to see it all go to ruin." Still less could an earlier McCarthy character have murmured to herself, "She would leave him, she thought, as soon as the petunias had bloomed." But The Weeds, first of the four short stories...