Word: gremlin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them having been found to be more out of key than the others. The family bell, fourth largest in the set, now signals the end of classes at the Business School. The 16 at Lowell range in size from a 13-ton brute to a pint-sized gremlin of 22 pounds...
...wishing to change the subject, but deeming it the discreet thing to do, your scuttle broker once thought that one of the funniest things he had ever seen was Zemlin, the gremlin, playing tangle-foot with the signal flags not so long ago in S.C.A. Funny, but it ain't half so funny any more. Hanged if that muslin can't get aggravatingly hard to handle with about 270 wolves howling...
...officers invited to a "Gremlin Dance," when "Gremlins" are supposed to be destructive figments of an imagination? Or do the girls of the North-East airlines wish the ASOTS to Gerlinice them Saturday night?: If the latter is so...contact...
...among us would change places with our civilian sisters? Who would give up the comfort of flat heels and lisles, or our little gremlin suits or the mail-box mob or rows of wet white gloves, or disbursing problems, or our mail from Bu Sand A? Not We! We Would rather flirt with Portsmouth. After all, you could win fame knitting socks for chilly sailors-and who knows, membership in the Portsmouth Outing Club could be exciting-well novel anyway...
Have you met Oscar is the oscilloscope gremlin. He is a fiendish little fellow with a head like a vacuum tube and a greenish leer on his face. Indeed, be is one of the most hateful of all gremlins. He sneaks in silently, and than you hear him laughing hollowly in the back of the instrument. You open it to look for him, but by that time he isn't there. You wish he'd come back so you could find him and get rid of him. He won't, though, at least not until you've got everything...