Word: nut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Webb is a nut about smoking (all his desks bear metal signs saying NO SMOKING, and he means it) and about standardization. Webb offices are run according to "The Blue Book," which specifies even what kind of desk calendar pads are to be used and what kind of lettering must be on the door. One employee who drove a tan car when Webb wanted all company cars to be black found his sedan had been removed from the parking lot and repainted while he was at work. Webb is too busy to spend much time at his retirement cities...
...sheer, outstanding inability, Lieutenant Hutton quickly rises to the top of the nut heap. He is a go-day-wonder-how-he-made-it who begins the war as a casualty (he tries to catch a baseball with his ear), continues it as a sad sack (he reports for duty by hitting the wrong pedal, ramming his jeep through the side of a building, parking it smartly beside the C.O.'s desk), but ends it as a hero (he captures the gefilte-fisherman). The nut occasionally has a date: Lieutenant Prentiss, a nurse who in civilian life was "just...
That is precisely how Ike went home emptyhanded; he had a slight cold and so never did get to wet a line. Crosby, a self-styled "nut" on light tackle, likes to use a 10-lb. line; last week he caught a fine striped marlin (they run from 115 lbs. to 190 lbs.) this way, though most of his catches are dolphin, roosterfish and other fighters in the 25-to 40-lb. range...
...comes out of an apartment house across the street. He is some kind of religious nut who spies on lovers in public parks, then denounces them vehemently; he carries a prayer book in one hand and pinches pretty bottoms with the other. In a soaring flight of pathetic phallacy, he begs Ekberg to come down off that sign and stop damaging the public morals. "All right," says Ekberg. All ten fathoms of her descend from the sign. She plucks up the dirty-minded fellow, removes his trousers, and clutches him to her mammoth mammaries...
...still others said "Why do you ask?" (Frightened.) "Earl is not a place, It's a thing." "Is it a building here?" "Why, that's redundant." "Sorry. My history background is very weak." "What are you, some kinda nut?" "I don't think he lives in Cambridge." "There's no news today, huh?" "No, not off-hand...