Word: featly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would like to comment on the article in TIME, Sept. 11, regarding the drafting of doctors, and on the statement of Robert Ruark, whom you quote as follows: "To beat a draft and knock off a free medical education is quite a feat ... I wouldn't weep for [this group] if they all got drafted on private's pay. They owe us some interest on the loan...
...Truman has written many pungent private letters. Mr. Truman has also publicly put his foot in his mouth before, but this time the feat seemed to overshadow all others. His description of the Marines as the Navy's police was grossly inaccurate. By congressional act the Marines' primary mission is the seizing and securing of naval bases; by long tradition their mission is to fight anywhere, any time and at a moment's notice. It was obvious to everyone else in the U.S. that, at the moment, marines were fighting and dying in Korea. Harry Truman...
...tail, and no one could be sure in which direction the fish was meant to be swimming. But the slab, gently curved and polished to paperknife thinness, did seem to move somehow, and the uneven grain of the marble gave it a wavering, watery air. It was no small feat to make stone come alive. The Fish might be ivory-towerish, but no one could call it a joke...
...when Florida Champion Clyde Wells was unable to make the trip. Joan was runner-up to Wells this year. Her coach, Fred Etchen, once a pupil of the great Annie Oakley and captain of the 1924 U.S. Olympic trapshoot team, was inclined to regard Joan's Annie Oakley feat as a fluke. "It wouldn't happen again in a thousand years," he said. In the 51 years of the Grand American Trapshoot, certainly, nothing like it had ever happened before...
Bath in the Clouds. This dramatic feat stirred up a flurry of premature rainmaking. Barnstorming pilots took off with dry ice to knock down fleecy clouds. They did not knock down much rain. For one thing, they often picked on the wrong clouds, e.g., the stratiform (layerlike) clouds, which unless very thick do not contain enough moisture to matter. And they were inclined to overdo, choking the clouds with too much dry ice. A piece of dry ice falling through a supercooled cloud creates enormous numbers of ice nuclei. Too many falling pieces of dry ice create too many nuclei...