Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...immediate remedy are forthcoming. Yet, were the Labour Government to stand for reelection today, it would win easily. Completely unlike most Americans with their native optimism, most Englishmen face the future realistically: England will have a tough time during the next few years, and no government can work an overnight miracle...
Bowled Over. In Redwood City, Calif., members of the local OPA board were astounded by an overnight change in the office: the ceiling had collapsed...
...brains of victims of this creeping apoplexy are found, after death, to be covered with hundreds of "infarcts" where a tiny blood clot has choked off the surrounding tissues. (As an old lady once told Alvarez: "Death takes little bites.") Symptoms: overnight the victim ages quickly, becomes querulous, may lose his self-respect, may deteriorate morally...
...Mother's little angel seems to turn to demon overnight. For Six, life is duplex. He seesaws between yes & no, love & hate, laughter & tears, chocolate & vanilla. A tough first-grade teacher who insists on his learning the three Rs may give Six a stomachache; he would rather play games. This little extravert loves praise, can't stand criticism, frequently confuses "thine" with "mine...
...three days without realizing that he was in the wrong place. When his error was finally discovered, he said it had occurred to him that there were lots of new faces around-but on thinking it over he smugly decided that everyone else in the organization had been fired overnight...