Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sellers qua Montjoy proposes war; Sellers qua Glorianna consents to it; and Sellers qua Tully Bascomb leads an expeditionary force of twenty men clad in mail and armed with crossbows, to New York, where they are to surrender. They arrive on the day of a mass air raid drill, and by chance reach a laboratory where the prototype of the devastating Q bomb has just been completed...
...tradition allows only the captain to chatter encouragement. On defense, his jarring, head-on football tackles flattened any opposing player he seemed to suspect of having the ball, having had it, or about to get it, but he let the play get away time and again. Sniffed the Oxford Mail: "The subtleties of positioning have escaped him so far. His tackling was far from classic...
...machine, might vary four to five seconds in wet weather," admits that rain comes often enough for the light to produce a quarter or more of the town's $12,000 to $15,000 annual budget. But local members of the Good Government League, organized by polio-crippled Mail Carrier Harry Chapman to fight the "Dawson crowd" and its red light, consider Godfrey's figures overly modest. They once counted 30 arrests in a single day, estimated the light's take at something upwards of $50,000 a year, got brushed aside when they demanded a look...
...return mail the snorers got instructions for an exercise that may curb snoring: "Hold something firmly between your teeth (or gums if you have no teeth) for ten minutes after going to bed but before settling to sleep." In each letter Family Doctor enclosed a wooden tongue depressor "very suitable" for holding between the teeth. The exercise strengthens muscles that hold the mouth closed, helps Britons to control snoring by keeping a stiff upper...
Just then the door opened and one of Vag's roommates walked in, carrying a green bookbag in one had, and several pages of notes in the other. He walked around the room for a while, first searching for his mail, then for a place to throw his jacket. "Vag," he said, "I'm about studied out. Let's both get to bed early so we can make breakfast tomorrow morning...