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Today's schedule for alumni will be jam-packed with Commencement week events: two sets of symposia, Harvard ROTC commissioning, the Law School alumni luncheon, the annual Harvard-Yale baseball game, and Glee Club and Band concerts all take place today...
...judgment, the situation is getting worse instead of better." Outward. Dodd, who has heard his fill of TV talk, could not suppress a gnawing complaint: "You all seem to use the same terminology-to think alike-and to jam this stuff down people's throats." Men of good will who object to all this sex and violence, he added, are promptly sacked by all three networks. This time, it was ABC-TV's boss Thomas W. Moore who spoke the industry's bland philosophy. "They come and they go," he said, "through revolving doors...
Prayilny: Intouristy (literally, foreign visitors), meaning any of the locals who are dumb enough to swallow the party line. Koni (parents, literally horses), seriaki (old squares, grey ones) and gady (cops, literally reptiles). Anyone else who gets you into a lazha (jam), such as a pizhon (stoolie) or piraty (secret police), otherwise known as iskusstuovedy (literally, art experts...
They are likely to jam in cold-welds. This may well have happened already; the phenomenon would explain the misbehavior of such moving parts as electrical relays in complicated satellites. Ordinary greasy lubricants do little good; they evaporate too quickly. National Research scientists have found a few solid materials that can keep metals from sticking together, but they are not yet satisfied. They are still looking for a reliable way to make a long-lasting space bearing...
...dark blue egg cup with a gold ring round the top was boiled for three and a third minutes . . . Then there were two slices of wholewheat toast, a large pat of deep yellow Jersey butter and three squat glass jars containing Tiptree 'Little Scarlet' strawberry jam; Cooper's Vintage Oxford marmalade and Norwegian Heather Honey from Fortnum's. The coffeepot and the silver on the tray were Queen Anne and the china was Minton." One memorable meal, in Moonraker, takes 6½ pages for Bond to order...