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Where I write dramas helter skelter...
Unlike the helter-skelter days of World War II, when a light tank might be powered by any one of four different engines, the parts and engine of the new vehicles will be standardized. They will be powered by the six-cylinder air-cooled Continental engine specially developed...
...expressionists, Barr maintains, but the abstractionists who have the ball. Among Barr's choices were paintings by Jackson Pollock, who dribbles paint onto his canvases from above to create what Barr calls "an energetic adventure for the eyes," Willem de Kooning, who gets equally helter-skelter results with a brush, and Arshile Gorky...
...divided into two zones along a line running west from the southern boundary of Virginia (36° 30' N. Lat.) with 1,948 counties in the northern zone, 1,147 in the southern. Only 82 counties-distributed helter-skelter across the country in both zones-reported no polio cases between 1932 and 1946-the period under study. Of the 83 counties which had had epidemics, all but seven were within the northern zone. But within this zone, no clear pattern was apparent...
Towards the end of the game, Valpey employed a helter-skelter "desperation defense," in which one of the guards drops back just before the ball is snapped. The defensive team thus gambles on letting the opposition complete a few short passes; it also has the option of running the ball, but either way the clock keeps running. Naturally, you don't do this when you're behind...