Word: corrals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there were almost a score of victims in the bandit's marble corral, with all but the mail carrier and two women lying stiff and cold in their shorts. At that point another guest-an astonished man -entered, stared at the scene and cried: "What the hell's going on here?" The horizontal captives behind the desk winced and waited for shots. It took them several minutes to realize that the robbers had long since faded silently away, taking pistols, crowbar and $3,383 in loot, and that they were, beyond any doubt, making a terrible spectacle...
...leaders are counting on him to do the most effective work in personal conversations after his return the week after next. Ike's mission in the period between his return and the convention is to corral a few score delegates, not to impress millions of voters. He has to be careful not to arouse the animosity of any large number of voters, but it is too late in the day for increased popular support to help him much with the delegates...
...Creation" is easy to read because Gamow is skillful at finding simple, apt illustrations for complex ideas. One good method for determining the age of rocks is based on the transmutation of heavier radioactive into isotopes of lead. Gamow likens the lead accumulations to dung deposits in a corral full of cattle: the cattle represent the radio-actives, the corral--rocks, and "primordial dung"--lead present before the transmission began. Then, he says, by considering the rate of dung-deposition of the cattle (or the half-life of the radioactive elements), we can tell when the cattle entered the corral...
...were Forsythe. Have you seen a little boy...?" Hear air raid siren at left elbow. Turns out it's not air raid siren at all but little boy. Forsythe. Pick self off floor and get caught up in herd of stampeding gamins. We sweep through the Hopalong Cassidy Corral, Scout Hut, and emerge in a layer of purgatory which Dante, lucky fellow, never visited. Gamins disperse into scouting parties and disappear...
...Houston, the newest Weingarten supermarket had a miniature corral well stocked with comic books to entertain moppets while their mothers shopped...