Word: fed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admittedly perverse tastes, for he is drawn only to what he calls "nymphets"-near-adolescent girls of mysterious characteristics and an "elusive, shifty, soul-shattering, insidious charm." The insidious charm of Dolores, whom Humbert dubs Lolita, lurks in the eye of the beholder, for she is a Coke-fed, juke-box-operated brat with a headful of movie mags for a brain. To stay close to her, Humbert marries her widowed mother and is ready to murder mamma when a passing Packard does...
...exchanges learned letters with a professor of anatomy at Johns Hopkins University. Peggy Owen. 16, is trying to induce cancer in mice by injecting them with carcinogens. With the help of Mary McCarthy, 17, Bill Tippie, 18, is building a binary-notation digital computer which will solve problems fed into it by a telephone dial. Allen Womack, 14, is working on his own Geiger counter that he describes as "an analytical count-rate meter for nuclear disintegration...
Electronic Brain. Standard & Poor's system (cost to date: $50,000) is the result of a year's experimentation with an electronic computer that keeps tabs on the market. The transactions on the exchange's ticker tape are duplicated on a special tape that is fed into the machine. The brain rejects all extraneous information carried on the exchange tape, such as news bulletins, picks the latest quoted price for each stock, multiplies it by the number of shares outstanding (a figure previously fed into its memory drum...
...from a total recall of basic-training days had better skip the novel's second half, which follows the hero into the Army. The writing here is as concentrated and about as interesting as K-rations, e.g.: "This is the U.S. rifle, calibre thirty, MI. It is clip-fed, it is air-cooled, it is gas-operated...
...convey the mellowness of time passing, Author Flood goes in relentlessly for air-cooled, clip-fed flashbacks. He has a hostly urge to escort the reader to the best schools, streets, shops and restaurants, like a kind of fictional branch of the A.A.A. Persistently understated and overbred, A Distant Drum belongs to the Forest Lawn of American writing where the cosmetician's art skillfully mimics but cannot summon life...