Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time was Christmas Day minus two, 1944; the place, five miles from Bastogne. The swart, short-legged photographer got out of his jeep, climbed an embankment and fired away with his long-lens Contax at some G.I.s advancing across a snow-covered field. Suddenly one yelled and leveled a Tommy...
...Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, the social structure was more elaborate; descending from grey-clad Alpha Plus Intellectuals (World Controllers) to black-clad Epsilon-Minus Semi-Morons...
...circus in nearby Salinas. But those who gave Bach a try got preludes and fugues on the organ, cantatas, all the Brandenburg concertos and a few works by other 18th Century composers. The big event was two performances of the great B Minor Mass. It rated a B minus for Bach -the strings were uneven and the chorus occasionally mushy-but it deserved an A for effort...
When the Berwick sailed for home a few days after the party, her complement was minus a Royal Marine. Picked up by a shore patrol and shipped home, David has never seen Minnie again. But he has never stopped trying. Once he got back to Halifax as a stowaway on a troopship, but he was caught before he could see Minnie. In three other tries, always as a stowaway, he was caught once in Port Said (he had thought the ship bound for Halifax), twice in Le Havre...
Ambition, academic or otherwise, must he made of sterner stuff than the average American male, the sociology fears. Excessive drive and will-in-win, even if it's only for a B-minus, can cost today's Horatto Alger 10 to 15 years of his life under modern tension...