Word: notes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kremlin released a stiff note of protest to the United States, Britain, and France asking them to take measures to prevent such "unlawful" action...
Strong Sentiment. In Syracuse, N.Y., after a milk bottle crashed through his $175 picture window, George Russo read the note inside: "Couldn't stop to say hello, so greetings anyway...
Disaster Plan. In Tokyo, a foreigner in his underwear leaped from a cab, rushed into a Red Cross office, handed the rest of his clothing to a startled clerk along with a note in English stating "For typhoon relief," dashed...
...course the note turns out to be no joke, and one fine sunny day, during an air-raid drill, an ocean-going tug chugs past the Statue of Liberty, and 20 mailclad bowmen make a beachhead in lower Manhattan. They move inland through deserted streets and occupy a scientific institute-where, as it happens, Dr. Alfred Kokintz, the great physicist, is putting the final touches to the Q-bomb, a football-shaped object that will erase an area of 2,000,000 square miles if it ever explodes. The bowmen capture the bomb and the man who made it, take...
...title. The Day Nothing Happened telegraphs the gentle punch that Humorist Corey Ford (Has Anybody Seen Me Lately? Never Say Diet) has aimed at the current publishing mania for Day books. He parodies the pompous epiphenomena that accompany such ventures, including the introductory note of martyred scholarship, the bow of punctilio to humble assistants ("My thanks to Mr. F. L. Peters at the Information Booth at Grand Central"). And there is the jacket blurb from a fellow authority in the field: "'The most exciting twenty-four hours since the day I shot Jim Bishop'-A. Lincoln...