Word: object
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grey Atlantic swells off the rugged Donegal coast bobbed a strange, black, knobby object. The young fishermen of Ballymanus village strolled down to the sea, stared and wondered. At length came the official coast watcher. It was a mine, he warned: let no one touch...
...Logical action is only a bit player on the political stage. > The chief players are the elite and the non-elite-the Lions (plus the Foxes) and the Rabbits. > The majority are incapable of self-rule. > The object of every elite is to maintain its power...
...hand was: 1) the worst example yet of what failure to coordinate political aims and understandings with war aims could bring about; 2) an object lesson in the lengths to which the U.S.S.R. could go to compel understanding on its own terms; 3) a preview of postwar confusions. Now, as never before, the time was ripe for a personal meeting sometime soon between Joseph Stalin and Franklin Roosevelt...
...dimple, common to the vertebrates with the highest acuity (some birds have two in each eye), there are no rod cells. The cones are slim and tight-packed. The other common denominator is the mechanism for accommodation-ability to focus the eye, maintain a sharp image of a moving object...
Hope finally is captured, but escapes and is trapped again in the Nazi's secret council chamber. By posing as a dummy in a display. Hope sits on a bicycle and looks scared while the enemy agents quarrel over their prowess of knife throwing. Hope, of course, becomes the object of their skill, but the bicycle comes in handy when he is discovered, for even Hope can toss it at his tormentors...