Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What the critters lacked in talent they made up in hard work. They wiggled through more walking lessons than Brigitte Bardot, and rasped themselves raw-handed to perfect the fast draw. Times without number they blasted holes in their own britches, and one of them, while poking his hat brim...
The Wet Swastika. What seems clear is that New Haven police charged and swung their nightsticks with unnecessary relish as they tried to disperse a crowd that probably did not need dispersing. One Yalie got an eight-stitch dent in his skull, and a young, chesterfield-wearing history teacher was...
Racing Particles. Since a good source of electrons is atom bombs, which give off vast swarms of them, military authorities realized quickly that rocket-borne atom bombs, exploded at the proper altitude over the proper part of the earth, would test peaceful magnetic theories while giving answers to military problems...
From outside comes a peril more dire, if not more wearing, than hunger or boredom or claustrophobia. Nazi boots clump on the cobblestone sidewalks, and the heehaw of the paddy wagon siren sounds in the night; from their window the fugitives watch, horrified, as the greengrocer across the street, and...
Most economists of stature smile at the administered-prices argument. John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard economist, author of the currently popular The Affluent Society, and in no sense an apologist for business, takes the line that a large amount of administered pricing is inherent in the modern economic system. Says he...