Word: boredly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were short-range with the possible exception of one single-stage, 70-ft. monster that looked like an overgrown German V2. The big new T-54 tanks had already been seen in action in Budapest, and the only noteworthy artillery pieces were two huge cannon (12-16 in. bore) presumably capable of firing nuclear shells. "We saw nothing that worries us," said one Western military attaché. "It's what we haven't seen that does...
...Omaha newsmen Grandpa Harry Truman confided that he dasn't lug around a picture of little Clifton Truman Daniel, 4 months. Reason: "The boss [Bess] won't let me. She's afraid I'd bore everyone." At week's end Harry and Bess dropped in at a Southern California kiddies' mecca, Disneyland, which their grandson is too young to enjoy yet. Among the diversions enjoyed by the young-in-heart Trumans: a ride on a Mark Twain riverboat, a rocket trip to the moon...
...adman. John P. Cunningham, head of Cunningham & Walsh, Inc., whose clients will funnel $20.8 million into TV this year, told 700 admen in Atlantic City that today's "pallid programing" is fast robbing even the best commercials of their power. Said he: "People will watch programs that bore them, but they tend to tune out their minds, which is bad for advertising...
...nothing very far out of the ordinary. In the amazing School of Mathematics, Yang and Lee are only two of a host of hyper-brilliant physicists and mathematicians who read like a "Who's Who in Physics and Mathematics."' On its professional staff in recent years have been Armond Bore Albert Einstein, Kurt Godel, Deane Montgomery, Marston Morse, Oppenheimer, Abraham Pais, Oswald Veblen, John von Neuman, Bengt Stromgren, Hassler Whitney, Herman Weyl, and Yang...
...knew him. He had the weaknesses of his subject matter, but like the work of his own "sour-beer artist" (see glossary) his apparently sloppy words came out in (crystal. Unfortunately, the total recall of irrelevant detail which is wonderful in the saloon anecdotes is a bit of a bore in McNulty's journalistic pieces. Irish writers like McNulty should deal only with New York Irishmen. Even when he went back "to where I had never been," i.e., to Ireland, he found that to his ears Gaelic sounded like Yiddish; and that the stay-at-home Irish-unlike their...