Word: foams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Raytheon expects airlines to be the first big "Radarange" buyers. Quick lunch restaurants are prospects too. Radarange will grill a hamburger sandwich or a hot dog in 35 seconds. It bakes foam-light cup cakes, biscuits, or gingerbread in 29 seconds. It shuts itself off automatically...
Like other rough mysteries, war is something the wits of The Little Group would prefer to skim or skip. When it comes, some of them foam with the "war hysteria" they used to deride. Their self-assured little world, fissured anyway with snobberies, jealousies and plots, goes to pieces. As Harvard overflows with V-12s in training, Dorothea's libertine of 1923 shows up rich and flashy in a Navy uniform. As the ensuing chapters unreel, the reader may think that Miss Howe's heroine is being loaded with the wartime experiences of a dozen women rather than...
...Ballot Box, Shallow Peace, Anti-Climax, End of the Line, Crime & Punishment, Death & the General, The Wilted Flowers. . . . You editorialize with: "There was as yet no sign of confidence from the Man of the Year . . . that anything could be done. . . . The feeling was abroad that . . . even presidents [were] mere foam flecks on the tide. In such a world," you sob, "who dared be optimistic...
There was as yet no sign of confidence from the Man of the Year, nor from most of humanity, that anything could be done about the problem. The feeling was abroad that the complexity of modern life had made all men, even Presidents, even Men of the Year, mere foam flecks on the tide...
...reduce some 6,500,000 feet of shots to theatrical coherence (it runs 84 minutes), and to outline clearly the history of one of the world's major campaigns: that which began at Southampton and ended in Berlin. Moreover, starting two months after Dday, they had to foam along the course with their noses at the withers of history, constantly forced to revise (first there was an ending in Paris, then one at the Rhine). They also took it on themselves to make the whole job an illustration of teamwork among the men of many services and of several...