Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fruit-fly generations are short: even recessive mutations show up fairly quickly. Human mutations may not do their work for thousands of years. But, says Dr. Muller, "finally they must cause the dying out of one of the descendent individuals that carries the harmful mutation, either through his direct death ... or through his failing to reproduce-in either case his 'genetic death...
...defensively maternal note creeps into her voice. Says she: "He's a perfectly normal boy, very free with the others and full of fun. He has a natural manner, except when photographed. Then he wears his picture-taking look, a rather bored expression. . . . He has a good mind . . . direct and honest. It would be easy for him to say he understands when he doesn't and he will not do that...
...Conference in Prague [TIME, Aug. 11] was good reporting, but lacked an important touch for me. I was at Prague when the conference opened. I saw the parade as you described it. ... That the U.S. Embassy in Czechoslovakia objected was no surprise. I hope they sent their official protest direct to the White House, for the U.S.A. was the only nation there which did not sponsor and plan an exhibit...
...owners of the Red Rose Inn in West Grove, Pa., solemnly went through the yearly ceremony stipulated by a 216-year-old deed, handed over one red rose to the heir of William Penn. The heir: Amy Penn-Gaskell Hall, II, a tenth direct descendant of Penn...
Behind this Sunday-best façade (which cost an estimated 700 million rubles-$58 million) was everyday Moscow, a slow city, solemn friendly (when its masters permit it) and relatively clean-especially near the center. Dirt increases in direct proportion to distance from the Kremlin. Not even last week's ceremonial ablutions could douse Moscow's habitual smell-a musty and ageless compound of wet plaster, cabbage and inadequately dressed furs. Not even last week's hectic carnival rumpus could exaggerate the Muscovites' devotion to their white-walled, golden-headed city...