Word: enoughs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Motor Scooter. Harley-Davidson Motor Co. will introduce its first Topper motor scooter with a two-cycle engine that delivers 7 h.p. Scooter has a top speed of 50 m.p.h., features a fully automatic transmission and 1.7-gal.-capacity fuel tank that holds enough gas for 150 miles. Price...
...heavy smokers fear lung cancer, they do a good job of covering up, researchers found in a Lansing (Mich.) survey. Most smokers know more than nonsmokers about the cigarette-cancer link, but stubbornly maintain a breezy optimism. Those who have been scared enough to switch to filters are even more illogical: only 20% admit that they think the niters may help to prevent cancer...
Seventeen years later, incapacitated in hermitlike seclusion in Santa Barbara, four years before his death, he had just enough of the Sherman combativeness to fight and win a last battle for a $50-a-month Army pension that was his due for service in the War of 1898. Father Tom's entry on his pension application blank for nearest relative to be notified in case of death: his dead father, General William Tecumseh Sherman...
...doorway where Lousy and you and G.J.'s always sittin and dont stop to think of words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.' " Despite its irritating quality, the formless formula works well enough in evoking the often simultaneous boyhood moods of scorn, fear, sentimentality, barefootedness and gleeful obscenity. Writes Kerouac at wild random: "A young and silly dove is yakking in the blue, circling the brown and slushy river with yaks of pipsqueak joy," and "the mystery which I now see hugens, huger...
...this, the movie starts off well enough; it is, at the beginning, an almost excellent satire of the social climber, given bite by the implication that the climber's position is not so much his own fault as that of society. And some of society's offenders appear more sharply in this light than they do in the book. The gruff nature of M. de Renal, for one, is brilliantly emphasized, providing a clear motive for Julien's well meditated social ascent. Then, too, the seduction scenes are fine stuff, exhibiting some well coordinated pussyfooting from bedroom to bedroom...