Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over five miles away, the scientists lay flat, listening breathlessly to the time signals announced over the radio by Chicago's Dr. Samuel K. Allison: "Minus 15 minutes, minus 14 minutes, minus 13 minutes. . . ." At "minus 45 seconds" a robot mechanism took over the controls and the watchers lived the tensest seconds of their lives...
...prophetic hero sails northward to buy wooded Manhattan Island from Indian Chieftain Badger (Anthony Quinn), originator of the Badger Game, for the customary price. Then he plunks forward a hundred years or so into the middle of Knickerbocker Holiday minus Peter Stuyvesant, again meets and at last appreciates Miss Leslie. She gets him talking hindside-to Dutch dialect so automatically that, jailed, he sings An Angel If I Had the Wings Of. When at length the genie gets control of his defective time machine, he restores the hero to the present, in the uniform he wanted all along...
...upon (TIME, Sept. 18) as fairest; a poll had shown it favored by enlisted soldiers, and it made no difference what officers thought (the plan does not apply to them and they will have to take their luck as the Army can spare them). But not until V-E minus ten had any theater commander known what the point values would be. Only 24 hours before the official announcement of R-day were the commanders told in coded telegrams what total of points would make a man eligible for release...
...Minus Goodenough was the star for the Crimeds, and his high-flying pow! in the second half of the first set the pace for the conquering juggernaut. Umpire Thomas O'Kearney -Lamont, Lampoon appointee, stared oggle-eyed as the runners trotted around the bases...
...boys, Walker, Woodin, Wilcox, Wood, et al., minus "Suave Sue" Wolf, raided Beantown's late nests Saturday till their collective hearts with content, but could find nothing to "the Shang"--not a paid advertisement...