Word: missions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colonial Office veterans run the unliquidated portions of the empire. Whenever it tried to make socialists shoulder the white man's burden, something had gone wrong. Out under the never-setting sun, one of the socialist governors turned more blimpish than Colonel Blimp. Another took his socialist mission a bit too seriously. The latter was Oliver Ridsdale, Earl Baldwin, the socialist son of the late Stanley Baldwin...
When Armorel falls in love with Gian she devotes her life to improving him, passionately believing that under his simple-simian surface he has a heart of gold (which is true) and a fine intellect (which is not). She goes about her miscalculated mission with such iron ferocity that toward the end of the book some readers will want to liquidate her. They will not have to worry; Gian's nutty old father does that job admirably by slitting her throat, and Gian is convicted of the murder and hanged...
...discussed by Dean Pound, recently returned from serving as legal adviser to the Minister of Justice in the Republic of China; John K. Fairbank '23, professor of History in the department of regional studies on the Far East; George W. Malone, Republican senator from Nevada on the Committee Mission to Indonesia; and Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of History and State Department adviser on Japan...
Pinball is rapidly breaking down into a direct war between distributor and student. A good pinball artist, whom the inhabitants of the pinball-and-cheeseburger emporiums like to call a "fifty-mission-man," frequently can accumulate free games all afternoon on one nickel; the distributors are constantly making the machines more difficult...
...weight at the end is deflected enough to touch the circle it completes a circuit, and a polite little sign on the scoreboard says "Tilt," or in the case of one popular machine using a Western theme, "Yipee Tilt!" Even this device is often insufficient however. A veteran "fifty-mission-man" can hit the machine vertically and bounce a ball back up the playing board without tilting it. Another technique, still more refined, is bodily lifting the whole machine and propping the front legs on the player's feet or a brace of matchbooks; this will tilt the machine...