Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speaks, almost grudgingly, out of the corner of his mouth; he has no small talk. Officers of his staff once maneuvered him into a car with a colonel who was his runner-up for the title of the army's most taciturn officer, and asked the chauffeur to keep track of the conversation. Not a word passed between them on the drive from Rio's Catete Palace to Santos Dumont airport. As the car drove through the airport gate, the colonel muttered: "Chegamos" (We have arrived). Grunted Dutra...
Hurley sweated over his docile pupil. He put hobbles on Foster to make him keep his legs closer together, made chalk marks on the floor to show him where to put his feet. "The whole secret of fighting is balance and leverage," Hurley kept saying. Foster kept on looking perplexed...
When his super-centrifuge machine conked out and couldn't be repaired during the war, tousle-haired Biochemist John Vaichulis began looking around Illinois' Manteno State Mental Hospital for some other project to keep him busy. In one building on Manteno's grounds he found a group of patients who were never allowed to mix with other patients. They were the country's largest concentration of typhoid carriers, the backwash of a 1939 epidemic which swept Manteno, plus patients sent from other Illinois state hospitals to be isolated...
Berkeley. There he would spend his days playing pickaback with his grandsons, or buying blocks of baseball tickets for the neighborhood kids. He would still go down for his daily dog paddle in the faculty swimming pool, and would still nibble the raisins he likes to keep in his briefcase. As for the farewell dinner, it was just sentimental nonsense. "It's damned embarrassing to have your obituary read in front of you," growled the Captain. "I just want to exit laughing...
...coming. A farm boy who quit school in the eighth grade to work in the cornfields at $30 a month, he has been inbreeding and crossbreeding corn since 1925. Neighbors, watching him tie paper bags over corn tassels and ear shoots to control fertilization, called him "Crazy Lester." To keep up his experiments he mortgaged everything he owned. When depression hit, he stalled off bankruptcy only by ducking meetings of his creditors. One day he went to an El Paso bank to plead for a last-ditch loan. Unwrapping a newspaper, he produced a ten-inch ear of corn...