Word: kid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...North Pole. You should know. You were a kid not so long...
...Professor Wiener were an ordinary scientist, narrowly specialized, he might have devoted the bulk of his book to detailed descriptions of control and calculating mechanisms. But the professor is anything but specialized. Short, round, bearded and kindly, he looks like a Quiz Kid grown into a Santa Claus-and that's about what he is. He was graduated from Tufts at 14 and got his Ph.D. from Harvard at 18. He speaks many languages; he loves detective stories and belongs to Boston's Sherlock Holmes club, "The Speckled Band." A mathematician by trade, he knows almost as much...
...slash his saber as if he were swatting mosquitoes in a Cuban jungle. Red McNeil had his own little trick. He'd lunge out with a saber and then roll onto his back to escape the counterpunch. It was unconventional and it looked good, even if it was kid stuff...
Nervous Rash. Chile last week declared Zervino persona non grata. The Chilean press, handling the case with kid gloves, printed the court's findings without comment. The Argentine press broke out in a nervous rash of abuse...
...hats-they appear more "dated" than the ancient wimple or the crinoline. Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes is still fresh as a daisy after 300 years, but who now hums Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition, or remembers the purple passages of Norman ("This is It, kid") Corwin...