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Second: Van Allen and other scientists who have cooperated with the military originally said there would be no change in the radiation belts. Hence Kennedy's offhand remark at a press conference before the explosion: "I know there's been a disturbance about the Van Allen belt, but Van Allen says it's not going to affect the belt, and it's his." Immediately after the test, however, Van Allen claimed to have predicated all along that that there would be a dramatic though temporary perturbation in "his belt" along with the creation of an intense, short-lived artificial belt...
Byrd has been at odds with every subsequent President. He considered Harry Truman just another big spender. Irritated by Byrd's opposition, Truman made his famed offhand remark: There were, he told a White House visitor, "too many Byrds in Congress." Predictably, Byrd liked Ike-but the pair came to a parting of the political ways when Eisenhower ran up that whopping $12.4 billion budget deficit in 1959. "I didn't like that thing about sending those troops down to Arkansas either," recalls Byrd. Byrd has inflamed the segregation issue in Virginia with his demand for massive resistance...
...pleasantly meandering way, Moore's work is an offhand introduction to etymology, a tribute to the language's first lexicographer. Dr. Johnson and a bright rag bag of quotations Moore happens to like. He ridicules the late George Bernard Shaw for his obsession with simplified spelling, correctly observing that tidied spelling would sterilize English of the still traceable ancient origins visible in its words...
...know? Lak Ah means for instance thuh hull damn thang is did in this hayere gawddam diuhlect, which at times gits purty sickenin'. And thuh way them guys clomp aroun' back uh thuh stage and forgit tuh turn thuh lights on an' off ain't inny too plasin' neither. Offhand, Ah cain't thank uv no wuss place to put on uh play than thet thar Kirkland Hayuse Joonyer Cummin Room. Sum uv thuh actin' ain't all thet all-fired good, is another thang...
...civilization, there is not a line of dialogue. The book's most vivid presence is that of Author Stacton, brooding in mordant aphorisms about the uses of power. Everything is stated in epigrams, and he can drop the material for an evening's argument into an apparently offhand phrase such as: "Like all fanatics, he thought in negatives...