Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most students charged for their involvement in the University Hall occupation will be informed late this week of the punishment decisions that the Committee of Fifteen will submit to the Faculty June...
...Late last night, a sharp-eyed local youngster claimed that Truman was in Independence. The youth reported that he had seen Truman practicing short bows in front of his bedroom mirror, repeating "Thank you, Mr. Pusey, thank you. Give 'em hell...
Davis Grubb tells his fool story just right. The reader is not bitten by the wooden false teeth till page 172, too late for him to pretend that he knew they were lurking all the time in the sinister West Virginia underbrush...
Misdirection sets the ambush. The book's first two sentences read: "It was a late afternoon of savage bottomlands heat in the April of 1935. Johnny Jesus stood between his two companions, leaning back against a high baggage wagon on the warped bricks of the depot landing and facing the big, moonfaced gunman." Serious business; savage bottomlands heat and a big moonfaced gunman. Grubb adds a sentence of smoky poetry to make sure everyone takes his meaning: "Uncle Doc [the gunman] was one of those humped, huge men who, beneath a cloak of paunch, are cat-swift as dainty...
Estimating on Hope. British, Swedish and West German builders have taken losses on the oilbergs. Because of technological quirks, the cost of a 200,000-tonner cannot be arrived at simply by doubling everything involved in turning out a 100,000-tonner. Germany's Howaldtswerke was seven months late in delivering the 191,000-ton Esso Malaysia because it sagged so badly on the trial run that it had to be reinforced with an extra 500 tons of steel. Sir John Hunter, chairman of Britain's Swan Hunter, concedes that "some of our costing estimates are still largely...