Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Former German scientists, Whizkidden alles, play a major role in U.S. missile development. At the Air Force's Air Research and Development Command in Baltimore, their Schlidenruler influence has inspired ein Jokenskribbler to write an "English-German" glossary in Katzenjammer style "for use with Technical Literature." Among the definitions suitably mimeographed and distributed last week among ARDC...
...exists at all, exists only against something. Last week events in Syria drove other Arab nations into common concern. One group of worried Arab powers centered around Egypt. Syria as a Russian satellite would rob Nasser of his chosen role as the leader of Arab nationalism, and play hob with all the talk of a Syria-Egypt merger and with the joint Syrian-Egyptian army command under Egypt's General Amer...
Baby Sitting to Cad Kicking. The Sketch's Powell-play was a London summer phenomenon brought on by newspaper circulation managers' frantic efforts to keep their papers selling (the Daily Mail was offering a bus trip to Moscow...
...since the British invasion when he wrote a letter to Box F-1794 the Times, in answer to a classified ad for an advertising salesman. Wrote Powell: "I can ride a show jumper or fight a duel. I can swim a river, kick a cad where it hurts-or play chess with a debutante. I once shot a bandit in Sumatra. I could do anything from baby sitting to playing a balalaika in the Andes...
...Kingston, Tenn., Cyclist J. B. Cook, booked for public drunkenness after a mile-long flight in which he wove in and out of traffic and pedaled hard to get away despite the patrol car's spotlight and siren, mumbled with chagrin: "There's a lot of play in these handle bars...